Neither Vakoung nor Kayeng have ever been away from home for so long. As part of preparing the rice fields, tending and harvesting it, Vakoung may be gone for 3 to 4 days at most. His rice field is located
The Purpose Prize
The Purpose Prize®, now in its seventh year, is the nation’s only large-scale investment in people over 60 who are combining their passion and experience for social good. The Prize awards $100,000 each to five people in encore careers
UK Wilderness Service Project – Nongbia Preschool
Back in May 2012 Sean Day of UK Wilderness Expertise contacted Give Children A Choice about bringing a group of students from the UK to Laos and doing a community service project during their visit. This was only the
Lao Ministry of Foreign Affairs Recognizes Give Children A Choice as a Registered Lao International NGO
April 2012 Give Children A Choice staff has been traveling to Laos, since December 2000. During this time it has built 30 preschools in Luang Prabang and Xieng Khouang Provinces. It has distributed daily mutliple vitamins to 24,000 preschool children
1,000 Peace Cranes Fly from the USA to Lao PDR
In Japanese folklore, the folding and presenting of 1,000 origami cranes signifies long life and happiness. An additional meaning to the 1,000 origami cranes comes from the story of Sadako Sasaki, a courageous child afflicted with leukemia as a result
Laguna Blanca Students Support Lao UXO Victim’s Children April 2012
Barbara and I were very fortunate (and we thank our good friend Fred Branfman for the introduction) to have met Ms. Alethea Paradis. She’s an attorney, turned teacher, turned entrepreneur who started a tour company, called Friendship Tours World Travel.
Yodt Phair Children Will Be Warm February 2012
Clothes for the Kids! We received knitted hats and sweaters donations from Lori Gilbert, who is on her fourth trip to Laos with Give Children A Choice. We purchased clothes from Tenneessee’s Many Eng’s donation. She earmarked her donation for
Give Children A Choice Signs MOU for a Model Preschool in Namyen Village February 2012
On February 14, 2012, Give Children A Choice’s Barbara Shimoda signed an MOU with Xieng Khouang’s Provincial Education Head Mr. Boualee to build a model preschool in Namyen Village. Namyen Village is located deep in Mok District in south east
A picture is worth a thousand words. A video is worth a thousand emotions. Thachok Village January 2012
The videos below were taken at Thachok Village, a Hmong Village located 45 minutes east of the Xieng Khouang Province capital city of Phonsavan this past January 17, 2012. Give Children A Choice was there to distribute daily multiple vitamins
Thank You Facebook Voters for the Dindam Preschool February 2012
We traveled to Dindam Village to formally handover our/their new preschool to the district education department and to the Dindam villagers. We celebrated the handover. We gave vitamins to the Dindam village preschool-aged children. We were warmly embraced (in some