Local mothers with their infants in Ban Thachok, Xieng khouang waiting to been seen by the doctors. This village was devastated in 2008 when 5 young boys went out to play after lunch and never came home. They found a bombie which looks like a tennis ball. They played a game of toss and throw. It exploded killing them instantly. One child's remains were so scattered in pieces, they could not bury him. The mother remains traumatized and stares out into the distances hoping to one day see her dead son again.... Bombies were left over from the Indochina war 40 years ago buried beneath the earth. As the rains flood the ground, the UXOs (unexploded ordinances) rise too. The country is too poor to remove all 280 million of them. They are present everywhere in several of the provinces in Laos We decided to build here to help the children through Education and to give the mother piece of mind knowing where their children are during the day... in school learning. Every school we build in every village, we return for the handover ceremony and hold health fairs to teach the children about health, nutrition and hygiene. We also bring USA doctors to give the villagers young and old health checkups and free immunizations against diseases.
