2013 Angkor Wat Bike4Kids! – Registration Now Open!
VFI is proud to announce the 8th Annual Angkor Wat Bike4Kids! In collaboration with our event partner, Terre des Hommes Netherlands, we plan to make 2013 the best ‘Bike4Kids’ yet! Bike4Kids offers bikers from around the world the chance to ride on the Angkor roads through the forest and rice fields of the ancient temple......
VFI is proud to announce the 8th Annual Angkor Wat Bike4Kids! In collaboration with our event partner, Terre des Hommes Netherlands, we plan to make 2013 the best ‘Bike4Kids’ yet! Bike4Kids offers bikers from around the world the chance to ride on the Angkor roads through the forest and rice fields of the ancient temple......
Land Rights and Hydropower: Bridging the Communications Gap
How are people supposed to talk to each other if they don’t speak the same language? Hydropower development is one of the most important and controversial strategies in any country, and Laos is no different. In fact, hydropower plans for Laos dwarf all other countries in the lower Mekong region as the country actively seeks......
How are people supposed to talk to each other if they don’t speak the same language? Hydropower development is one of the most important and controversial strategies in any country, and Laos is no different. In fact, hydropower plans for Laos dwarf all other countries in the lower Mekong region as the country actively seeks......
Help them help themselves
Protect, Educate, Empower: three powerful words that define the mission of Village Focus International. With focus on Anti-Trafficking & Child Protection, Integrated Village Development (Education, Health & Food Security), and Land & Natural Resource Rights, VFI is committed to working with and serving the poorest, most vulnerable people of Laos and Cambodia....
Protect, Educate, Empower: three powerful words that define the mission of Village Focus International. With focus on Anti-Trafficking & Child Protection, Integrated Village Development (Education, Health & Food Security), and Land & Natural Resource Rights, VFI is committed to working with and serving the poorest, most vulnerable people of Laos and Cambodia....
Local Leaders = Global Change
VFI invests in local leaders to achieve this mission. Well-trained, dynamic and motivated Lao & Cambodian leaders must lead the way: they are uniquely committed to the long-term wellbeing of their own communities, know their own needs and priorities, and understand the most effective strategies to achieve them. Their leadership – with your support –......
VFI invests in local leaders to achieve this mission. Well-trained, dynamic and motivated Lao & Cambodian leaders must lead the way: they are uniquely committed to the long-term wellbeing of their own communities, know their own needs and priorities, and understand the most effective strategies to achieve them. Their leadership – with your support –......
Minneapolis Lao-American fights human trafficking in Laos with VFI
Thouni Seneyakone embraced and kissed her grandmother goodbye at age 5, leaving behind the farming life in Laos more than two decades ago to establish a new life in Minneapolis. Although Seneyakone has forgotten many details of her childhood years in Laos, the whisper of her grandmother, Tonglor Seneyakone, into her ears still reverberates in......
Thouni Seneyakone embraced and kissed her grandmother goodbye at age 5, leaving behind the farming life in Laos more than two decades ago to establish a new life in Minneapolis. Although Seneyakone has forgotten many details of her childhood years in Laos, the whisper of her grandmother, Tonglor Seneyakone, into her ears still reverberates in......
