Recently, CARE International in Lao PDR and the Department of Health in Phongsaly signed the Memorandums of Understanding for the Strengthen the Quality of Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Services (Phase III) project in Phongsaly Province. This project aims to improve Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health and builds on the significant progress of the
CARE International in Lao PDR has continued to install clean water systems at the Songkhone and Chalae Health Centers, Kaleum District, Sekong Province, as well as handing over equipment for COVID-19 prevention to the health centers in order to ensure health workers are equipped and prepared to respond to COVID-19.
On 11 June 2021, CARE International in Lao PDR, in collaboration with the Lao Federation of Trade Unions, held a project closing meeting for Protections and Choice for Marginalized Urban Women Phase II, with the aim of summarizing and reporting on the successes of the three-year project from 2018-2021. The project has focused on
CARE International in Lao PDR, together with the Lao Federation of Trade Unions, has provided consumer goods and sanitation kits for workers at 10 garment factories in Vientiane Capital that have been affected by the COVID-19 outbreak in order to ensure that every worker in our garment factory partners is safe from COVID-19.
Huaythong village located in Samhan district, Phongsaly Province. There are 174 people, female 77 and most of them are GuemMu. In this village, there are 36 households where are far from urban and main road around 5 Kilometres. In 2017, the Strengthen the Quality of Maternal, Newborn, and Child health Service in Phongsaly Province
Mr. Aea is 24 years old; he is very energetic and a hard worker, he is married and has a child. He is a famer living in Sean In village, Mai district, Phongsaly province. This is one of the villages that CARE focuses on. Mr. Aea said before CARE, there was no livestock available.
Since the ACIS project came to Mr. Xiengonsy’s village, he has acted as the village representative and participated in trainings and meetings to develop a cultivate plan for the seasons. According to Xiengonsy, the project has been helpful to his village. “Now that we can gain information about the weather, things are different. Now,
Agro-Climate Information: tools for livelihood decision-making in the face of climate change. In Phongsaly province in the Northern Uplands of Laos PDR, farmers are experiencing impacts of climate change, which are disrupting the climate and ecosystems they depend on for their livelihood. Farmers’ lives are punctuated by distinct wet and dry seasons with rice
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