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"Another Lao Outreach" (Laos)
ALO Update Vol 13 No 3

Schools
Over the past several years, ALO has helped to build and maintain eight kindergartens, one elementary school, and one hill-tribe boarding school. Another boarding school is being built this year.

In the remote mountain village of Yaut Liang, hill-tribe children travel great distances to go to school—too far to live at home and attend, so during the week they live at the school. 230 children from five to thirteen years of age were living in two small, dirt-floored huts. However now their living conditions and classroom experience has greatly improved since the constructions of new classrooms and remodeling of dorms with cement floors has been completed.

School Supplies
The Lao children at these schools are exceptionally poor. Friends of ALO make it possible for students to receive school supplies, uniforms, and everything they need for learning.

Nutritious Meals
Each day every child is served a well-balanced, healthy, hot meal. The feeding program is vital for the children’s physical health and well-being.

Health Clinics
Each year, health screenings are provided at each school for the children and for adults in local communities. Volunteers with Health Care Ministries assist in this project. Doctors examine the children and give out vitamins, worm treatments, and medicines for most common health problems.

Coats
Xieng Khouang province is located in the mountainous north. Winter months are bitterly cold, but extreme poverty means that many children have no warm clothes. Since 1999, yearly jacket drives raise enough money to give each child a warm new coat.