By Dawn Lewis and Souksavanh Souvanny March 15, 2023 TerraKids is making an impact with community leaders in southern Laos! In January 2023, the TerraKids program organized a Teacher Training in Champasak District, southern Laos. The training is devoted to helping teachers be the first line of defense for their...
TerraClear has over 30 sales representatives that travel by motorbike throughout southern Laos, carrying filters on the motorbike, driving difficult dirt road, through mountains, to sell and deliver filters and train villagers. The work is hard and demanding. Most of the sales representatives are men, but in Dakcheung, one of...
Almost 35,000 people (8600 families) in rural Laos are now drinking clean water in their own homes through the TerraCare subsidy program! This is an amazing statistic – because without filters for clean drinking water, these families were either drinking from open water sources (ponds, rivers, lakes) or shallow wells....
Delivering the filters to 35 families in Phoneton Village, Salavan was a challenge this week! First, the filters were delivered to the warehouse weeks ago, waiting for the right time to deliver. On Wednesday, three TerraCare workers prepared for delivery to Phoneton. Located far from the main road, Phoneton is...
Training the Family About Clean Water and Handwashing As a trainer for the TerraCare program, Thip trains families about the need to drink clean water and have a toilet instead of open defecation. She also trains the families to wash their hands before they cook food, before they eat, and...
One teacher told us, “Thank you for facilitating such helpful discussions about the problems that our students face and how we can work together to find solutions. Meeting with fellow teachers to discuss these things was so empowering.” This was in response to our recent 2-day Teacher Training Workshops, which were organized and led by the TerraKids team for teachers from...
On Sunday, 15 August, more that 20 families built Tippy Tap handwashing stations outside their homes in the Lom Sak Thai Village in Champasak. One of the TerraCare trainers, Nith, decided to teach about clean hands and Tippy Taps after the Sunday church service in the village. Many families from...
Hello everyone, my name is Khamming and I am a sales representative with TerraClear in Vientiane, the capital of Laos. I graduated from high school with a degree in electricity, but had an accident and had to take care of myself by staying at home for a year. After recovering,...
In June, the TerraCare team had a follow up visit to Nam Tang Village, Pak Song District, Champassak Province. The team was there to train, monitor and observe customers who had received a water filter from TerraCare. These villagers have also received several lessons teaching about benefits of drinking clean...
The TerraKids Team recently received permission from education officials to host two Teacher Training Workshops in August 2021. We are grateful that the training is scheduled just before schools open for the new school year. This is a wonderful opportunity to share materials and techniques for teachers to use immediately...
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