ILO supports VFI to create and operate a Migrant Resource Center in Salavan Province, Southern Lao

VFI initiates a project building capacity of officials at Quarantine Centers in southern Laos to identify victims of human trafficking

VFI celebrates 20 years of operations in Laos, and remains the first and still-only international INGO created in the Lao PDR

VFI turns Bike4Kids! event over to local Cambodian organization and focuses mission on Laos

VFI opens a transit center to help Lao trafficking survivors from Thailand reintegrate into Lao society

VFI opens Vientiane shelter for survivors of human trafficking

VFI’s HEAL project becomes an independent organization, the Association for Community Development

VFI opens the first shelter in Laos for human trafficking survivors, located in Pakse (southern Laos)

VFI opens LINK resource center to educate Lao public, government, and civil society about land rights

VFI creates Angkor Wat Bike4Kids! event in Cambodia, which lasts for 10 years under VFI’s leadership

US State Dept. approves and funds VFI’s first anti-trafficking project

VFI’s original program — Health, Education, Agriculture, Leadership (HEAL) — launches

VFI becomes a registered nonprofit in the US, and the first NGO to operate in Laos