Akha access to education, Laos

CWS-Laos

Some 350 Akha ethnic minority students and 30 teachers in Van Nam Ly Village, Sampan district, Phongsaly Province, and Anou and Lak 17 villages, in Oudomxay Province, are taking part in a CWS-supported project to improve education. Three-thousand family members are indirect beneficiaries of the project.

The ethnic minorities of Laos live in rural, remote areas, and are at a disadvantage in the developmental process going on in the country. The majority of the isolated Akha tribe and other ethnic minorities have never before had access to primary education. CWS Laos, with the Oudomxay Provincial Education Department, is continuing this project which started two years ago and is bringing access to public education to remote ethnic minorities in Laos.

Activities include bettering living accommodations for teachers and boarding school students in three locations, improving school facilities in Van Nam Ly, constructing five new primary schools in the Anou area, increasing food supplies at secondary boarding schools, and expanding the capacity of local education departments to monitor the project.

Support for Church World Service helps make this program possible.

Updated 1/29/2008

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