Assisting youngsters at the Donkoi Children Development Center, Laos

CWS-Laos

Some 400 at-risk children are learning and growing with help from Church World Service and after-school programming at the Donkoi Children Development Center (DCDC) in Vientiane, Laos.

Laos is one of the least-developed countries in Southeast Asia, and vulnerable children there are at risk of exploitation, trafficking, or child labor, and suffer from illiteracy and a lack of life-skills or job prospects for their future. Combating these dangers, and helping the children become responsible and productive citizens into adulthood, is a goal of the CWS-supported DCDC.

The at-risk children are learning vocational arts such as weaving, gardening, basket-making, carpentry, pottery, and other income-generating activities. Programming is working to educate, prepare, and sensitize the youngsters to social issues that impact their lives: child’s rights, child labor, trafficking of children, etc. And, the children are being exposed to the creative arts, literacy opportunities, and theatrical productions to which they might not otherwise have had access.

Support for Church World Service helps make this program possible.

Updated 1/15/2008

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