Lao Voices

Video clips of Noi Sengsourigna during her visit to a Lao Language School in the US recently. She spoke about her work and her passion to preserve Lao traditional culture and music. She established Sengsourigna Children’s Music Center in Vientiane, a non-profit organization to preserve and promote Lao music and culture.
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News article from Vientiane Times Newspaper regarding cooperation between Lao and the EU in area of education.
EU hands over 13 schools in northern Laos
The European Union last week handed over 13 newly-furnished primary school buildings to local authorities in Viengkham district of Luang Prabang province in a bid to boost education standards in remote areas.
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Video description: Luang Prabang is a small town near the confluence of the Mekong River and its tributary the Nam Khane. The Lan Xang kingdom unified the country of Laos in the 14th century and Luang Prabang became its capital. The town since then has been known as a Mecca for Theravada Buddhism, also known [...]

We have an update news of our 10th Book Box Library that was delivered to Wattay Noi Elementary School last month. The students are making good use of their new book box library, filled with interesting reading materials. Thank you once again to all those generous donors to the book box fund. You have given [...]

Video description: Txongpao Lee, Executive Director of Hmong Cultural Center in Saint Paul, MN lectures about the Hmong marriage ceremony as part of the Building Bridges program educating audiences about the Hmong people and their culture. To learn more about this program visit www.hmongcc.org.

We have received confirmation from Laos that our 10th book box library has been delivered to Wattay Noi Elementary School in Vientiane. We are delighted to inform you that all 172 books ranging from learning materials to fairy tales stories have reached the students at Wattay Noi Elementary School on March 16, 2009.  This book [...]

Here are a few video clips of my visit to Houylao Elementary School on October 16, 2008. Houaylao Elementary School is home to our 9th Book Box Library.

My trip to Laos would not be completed without making a visit to Akat Elementary School and to see how our Lao Book Box Fund is making a difference in their lives. So, on November 18, 2008, I made a surprise visit to Akat Elementary School in Vientiane to check on the status of the [...]

I went back to Dannavieng Elementary School on October 18, 2008. For those of you that are not familiar with this school, Dannavieng is home to our Book Box Library and the School Building Project. As you can see from the video clips and the photos, the new building is quite large at 8 meters [...]

On October 17, 2008, I went to visit Nongdong Elementary School in Muang Phonethong, Champassak Province after my visit to Dannavieng Elementary School. For the people living in this area, Ban Nongdong is known as Ban Nai (inner village) and Ban Dannavieng is known as Ban Nork (outer village) because of the location from the [...]

Mekong Television with Ajarn Bounhong Khommarath from San Diego, California, posted on September 30, 2008. In this episode Ajarn Bounhong Khommarath spoke about the purpose of creating Mekong Lao ITV and responded to the comments and feedbacks from the viewers.
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Mekong Television with Ajarn Bounhong Khommarath from San Diego, California, posted on October 13, 2008. This episode is about parenting in the US and for parents and their children to adapt to the Lao way and the American way of communication. This is a very good episode because there is discussion about how to maintain [...]

Mekong Television with Ajarn Bounhong Khommarath from San Diego, California, posted on October 13, 2008. He spoke about the housing market and the impact of the sub-prime mortgage crisis and the impacts on the Lao community.
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Mekong Television with Ajarn Bounhong Khommarath from San Diego, California, posted on September 27, 2008. You can watch this clip in high quality by navigating with the triangle icon (first one on bottom right of the viewing screen).

Here are a few video clips that I made  on October 17, 2008 of the students at Dannavieng Elementary. The newly built but incomplete school has been in full session for the second year. Thanks to the generosity of Friends of the NLL, Lao Cook, and Nye Noona, these students were able to make use [...]