Global HeartFelt Hatters deliver hats to Ban Phawai! A huge THANK YOU to all the hatters around the world!!
Visiting Na Oh Village, Home to Our Next School Project
GCAC and A Hopeful Encounter visit Na Oh Village, the home of our next preschool project.
Mor Vue: “I want to be a Big Girl”
We were walking in Thachok Village. A young man in a camouflage jacket recognized us and asked us to help his younger sister, Mor Vue. A preschool girl-sized girl stood behind this young man. She wore a beautiful smile, beautiful
The Incredible Pavy Goodie Bags
Thachok and Phawai preschoolers were mesmerized, anxious and excited to receive a goodie bag filled with a stuffed animal, toothbrush, toothpaste, and a dozen goodies. Took a picture of a proud little boy as he surprisingly held up his bag
Global HeartFelt Hatters issue a hat and scarf call-to-action
Sometimes, the difference between surviving and perishing is a hand-knit hat or scarf. Give Children a Choice, a globally-focused 501(c)3 non-profit organization, has a mission of building and filling schools throughout the most impoverished regions of Asia. As education is
Namyen Preschool Handover
Give Children A Choice finally handed over the Ban Namyen preschool in Mok District in Xieng Khouang Province, northern Laos. Our first three futile attempts were halted due to unpassable roads. Heavy rains caused landslides on the roads with some
New Phonexay Preschool MOU Signed
Give Children A Choice’s Thongchanh signed an MOU (Memoradum of Understanding) to build a preschool at Phonexay Village, Khoun District Xieng Khouang Province, Lao PDR. This is Give Children A Choice’s 10th preschool in Xieng Khouang Province and 31st preschool
Kayeng Feels Bangkok
We took a break between appointments. We took a quick trip around Bangkok. We started with a short Courtyard golf cart ride to the BTS Skytrain at Rachadamri. Three stops away was National Stadium, where we picked up a tuk
‘We could see a lot of pockmarks in the ground – bomb craters’
Note: As part of our Voluntour program Give Children A Choice hosted a group of young aspiring journalists from Harvard-Westlake School during Friendship Tours World Travel’s Laos Investigative Journalism Adventure. The group spent ten adventurous days in Laos immersing themselves
Kayeng Yang Update – I Am Seven Houses Above the Ground
Thongchanh was translating Vakoung’s conversation with his wife and parents. He calls his wife and parents everyday. Kayeng had a big smile on his face, hearing Mommy’s voice. He asks for Mommy, when he talks in his sleep. After