The Luang Prabang Orphanage School is located some 5 kms from the historic centre of this UNESCO World Heritage city. The combined school and orphanage was been founded in 1986 but is little-known. It has classes of primary and secondary education and the last recorded numbers available were of some 400 children. These were either orphans, those that don't have an obvious father or mother or who a...
The Kianh Foundation is a small UK charity helping disabled and disadvantaged children at Hoi An Orphanage in Hoi An, Central Vietnam. It has had a permanent presence at Hoi An Orphanage since 2002 and is the only organisation working full-time there to improve the lives of the children. The Vietnamese Government own and run Hoi An Orphanage. We work alongside the authorities and aim to improve t...
Yeak Laom Community-Based Eco-Tourism Project says, 'We believe that tourism can be a positive experience for communities if income and the benefits are shared and are used to support the community into the future. In addition each tourism experience should be a positive cultural exchange and learning experience'. Yeak Laom Lake lies in an area of protected forest managed by indigenous highlander...
The Mirror Art Group is an NGO working in the northern Thai province of Chiang Rai. We operate a number of projects and programs to help the hill tribe peoples of Mae Yao sub-district to combat their everyday struggles with unemployment, poverty, drug addiction and lack of Thai citizenship. We also try to give the hilltribes of Mae Yao the skills, education and support required to adapt to a co-ex...
