Lao Book Box Fund
Lao Voices is a site supported by you (members and visitors). We pride ourselves on being run and owned as a community and working together to contribute to the Laotian community in any way that we can. We support the National Library of Laos Reading Promotion Program and have raised donations to pay for 10 book box libraries to be placed in schools in Laos.
Our first book box library in 2004.
Our second, third, and fourth book box library constructed in 2006 for those lucky schools in Laos.
Our fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth book box library to Phonsikhay Elementary, Dannavieng Elementary, Nongdong Elementary and Akat Elementary in 2007.
LP Book Boxes Donated in Laos (January 2006)
LP Charity Book Boxes Delivered (February 2007)
Books Delivered at 4 Schools in Laos (April 2007)
Book Box at Phonsikhay Elementary update (October 25, 2007)
9th Book Box Delivered in Laos (December 29, 2007)
Akat Elementary Book Box (March 15, 2008)
NongDong Elementary School in Champassak (June 18, 2008)
Dannavieng Book Box Library update (June 30, 2008)
Dannavieng Book Box Library update 2 (June 30, 2008)
Dannavieng Book Box Library update 3 (July 01, 2008)
Dannavieng Book Box Library update 4 (July 01, 2008)
Reading time at Houaylao Elementary School part 1 (November 05, 2008)
Reading time at Houaylao Elementary School part 2 (November 05, 2008)
A visit to Phonsikhay Elementary School (November 17, 2008)
A visit to Dannavieng Elementary School (December 28, 2008)
A visit to Dannavieng Elementary School part 2 (December 28, 2008)
A visit to Dannavieng Elementary School part 3 (December 28, 2008)
A visit to Dannavieng Elementary School part 4 (December 28, 2008)
A visit to Akat Elementary School (February 27, 2009)
Houaylao Elementary School Clips (March 06, 2009)
10th Book Box Delivered in Laos (March 26, 2009)
Reading Time at Wattay Noi Elementary School (April 29, 2009)
National Library of Laos Reading Promotion Project
It is a sad fact that the Ministry of Education in Laos has no budget for books or educational supplies. The majority of Lao schools don’t have libraries or access to books for students.
There is hope however for Lao students to gain access to reading materials. The National Library of Laos started its National Reading Promotion Program (NRPP) in 1989 with the assistance of the Japanese government to promote literacy and reading among children and their families in Laos.
The National Library of Laos Reading Promotion Program provides boxes containing books (funded by foreign aid) to rural schools. At the same time, NRPP also promotes literary in Laos using Book Mobile library.
We are seeking your help to continue providing “Book Boxes” to schools in Laos. We kindly request your help in giving the children of Laos the power of knowledge. If you or your school, business, or organization would like to sponsor your own book box, please contact the National Library of Laos directly and ask for director Kongdeuane Nettavong for further details.
How to contact the National Library of Laos:
The National Library of Laos is located at the corner Thanon Setthathirat/Thanon Pangkham, Ban Xiengyeun Thong, Muang Chanthaburi, Vientiane, Laos.
Mailing address:
P O Box 704
Vientiane
Lao P.D. R (Laos)
Telephone: (856-21) 212452 or (856-21) 312045
Fax: (856-21) 213029
I have been trying to raise money for a few book boxes and tried contacting the director in laos but didn’t have any luck. If anyone shall know another way of contact, please email me or leave a reponse on the message board. Thank you!
Sam Fhone Viengkae
Hi, our daycare would like to give a book box to a class. Please let us know how to do this and if pictures can be supplied for our kids here in america who have so much.
Hi,
Please contact the National Library of Laos for the exact price per book box and how to send the money to the director of the National Library. The price for the book box has gone up since last month due to a higher cost of constructing the wooden box to hold the books.
Director General Kongdeuane Nettavong
Mailing address:
P O Box 704
Vientiane
Lao P.D. R (Laos)
Telephone: (856-21) 212452 or (856-21) 312045
Fax: (856-21) 213029
You can make a request for photos to be taken during the delivery of your book box. The team from the National Library took a few photos for us during their delivery of four book boxes in 2007 to four different schools. My aunt in Vientiane then went to pick up the photos at the National Library of Laos and sent them to me.
The rest of the photos that we have were taken by my relatives living in the area where the book boxes were donated. I sent them digital cameras and asked them to go visit the schools to make photos and paid them for their service and the cost of making a photo CD as well as shipping cost.
Please know the National Library of Laos has no funding or budget so you would need to provide additional amount of money to cover the cost of shipping the receipt and the photos to the US.
Yeah, people underestimate all coordination that is involved in such a venture. Getting the money there, tracking the money, tracking the book boxes in person and report back with tangible results and pictures to prove it.
All time, energy and money Darly put into this deserves much more attention than the few that dropped in a few bucks and then demand their credit for it or even questioning your credit. Just sit there and wait till your dollars hit the ground and then cheer yourself about it. What mentality.
Screw them. They don’t know they messed up a good thing with their insane demands, unfunded criticism and infantile expectations. May they drown in the deep layers of Poo they have created themselves. And thanks for doing what you did, Darly. Perhaps, someday, you will continue on it.