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Healthy Villages & Local Leadership
‘Health’, in this context, encompasses a community’s physical, social, environmental, spiritual, intellectual and economic wellbeing. Where people live a primarily subsistence life directly off the land, issues are complex and inter-related, and require local knowledge, leadership and participation as the starting point for effective and sustainable development.
Healthy Villages & Local Leadership projects
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Land & Livelihoods
Land – forest, mountains, rivers, and agricultural areas – is the natural storehouse of food, medicine, building materials, medicine and saleable products for rural peoples in VFI’s target communities in Laos and Cambodia. Land tenure, knowledge of rights, the capacity to have a voice in policy decisions, and the opportunity to learn and incorporate best practices to improve opportunities, are essential elements for local people to maintain a respectable standard of living and to enable them to be good stewards of the natural resources that sustain them.
Land & Livelhoods projects
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Child Protection & Empowerment
Laos and Cambodia are destination and source countries for trafficking, a form of modern-day slavery far too common in this part of the world. Pedophilia, forced prostitution, labor abuses, and other forms of exploitation are common and increasing, especially as global economic issues force more rural people into poverty. VFI works to prevent, protect and reintegrate victims, at the policy and community levels, with local government and through regional networks.
Child Protection & Empowerment projects
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