A short description

Sop Oun village, on the benches of the Nam Ou river in northern Laos, has built a permanent playground for its nursery school and first classes of the elementary school.
Previously, teachers were making this playground with wood and bamboo found locally. After the rainy season the equipment had to be rebuilt. It is a hard task for the teachers, women in majority.

1600 EUR
June 2015
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Project description

Sop Oun village headman, Mr Oumphaeng, had this project in mind since 2014. It was becoming too difficult for teachers, mostly women, to make the school playground new after each rainy season. The villagers wanted to have permanent facilities and provide children with activities in the school grounds during free time and at the end of the day.

Solidarasia asked different contacts working in the field of education in Laos. Most did not know where to buy this kind of equipment. The director of the youth center of Oudomsay was formal, we had to import them from Thailand and Vietnam. But, in the case of Sop Oun, the amount was too small and it would be too expensive.

So we advised the headman to do the equipments on site. The village hired a welder. With pictures of equipment taken in Luang Prabang schools and even in Cambodia and Myanmar have permit the village authorities to give precise instructions to the welder.

A project proposal has been sent to our travelers and it is our agent in France, the Association for Solidarity and Tourism “Vision du Monde”, which has enabled the realization of this project with 1490EUR. The village and the school participated with 110 EUR and provided all the labor work to help the welder and for installation.

This has been so successful that some families of Sop Oun even ordered from this welder a swing for their home.

  • Contribution of the beneficiaries

    110 EUR

  • Total budget of the project

    1600 EUR

  • Solidarity funds

    1490 EUR

  • Origins of the fundings

    The association "Vision du Monde" (www.visiondumonde.org) with an additional donation of 2 travelers

  • Beginning

    May 2015

  • Completion

    June 2015

Information

Contribution of the beneficiaries
  • 110 EUR
  • All labor work
  • earth embankments
Contribution of the tourism for solidarity
  •  1490 EUR

Contact

Sop Oun village headman, Mr Oumphaeng, had this project in mind since 2014. It was becoming too difficult for teachers, mostly women, to make the school playground new after each rainy season. The villagers wanted to have permanent facilities and provide children with activities in the school grounds during free time and at the end of the day.

Solidarasia asked different contacts in Laos working in the field of education. Most did not know where to buy this kind of equipment. The director of the youth center of Oudomsay was formal, we had to import them from Thailand and Vietnam. But, in the case of Sop Oun, the amount was too small and it would be too expensive.

So we advised the headman to do the equipments on site. The village hired a welder. With pictures of equipment taken in Luang Prabang schools and even in Cambodia and Myanmar have permit the village authorities to give precise instructions to the welder.

A project proposal has been sent to our travelers and it is our agent in France, the Association for Solidarity and Tourism “Vision du Monde”, which has enabled the realization of this project with 1490EUR. The village and the school participated with 110 EUR and provided all the labor work to help the welder and for installation.

This has been so successful that some families of Sop Oun even ordered from this welder a swing for their home.

Interested, click here for an inquiry