Minors' staff at work over the years in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Viet Nam.
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Partners
Minors has cooperated with more than 100 Local Partners in 33 provinces in Lao PDR and Viet Nam over the past 34 years implementing support projects, mostly in very remote regions of both countries.
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Mr. Lung, Director of Doplisa, Moung Te, Lai Chau, hiking to Bum To school.
Mr. Le Van Phong who recently retired as Director of Bac Ha Dept. of Education and Training, with boarding students in front of a Minors' supported dormitory at Coc Lau Primary School.
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Minors and District Education Dept staff were invited in to warm-up on a cold day, at the home of the village chief, on visit to Minors' project at Man Than communal school (Simacai District) where Mr. Son (left) was formerly School Director.
Meeting Room of Thuong Quan School, in Ngan Son District, Bac Kan
Planning construction of new dorm, staff from the Phong Tho district Education and Training Dept, (DOET) at Lai Chau province, inspect the current structure at this commune boarding school.
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On the way to La Pan Tan school, Minors' and partners take a lunch break at Lung Khau Nhin market in Muong Khuong District in Lao Cai Province.
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Above: Mr. Nguyen Van Quang, then of the Department of Foreign Affairs of Dien Bien Province, graciously helped out with finding traction for our stuck vehicle, and later (below, left) dried off before they would let him enter the school.
Mr. Ly Seo Lung - Chairman of Si Ma Cai District People's Committee, is confronted by his mother in Sin Cheng market as to why he is not at work. He explained we had just visited the local schools.
Mr. Vi A Henh, Chief of the Section of Planning & Investment of Tua Chua District Peoples Committee stops with Minors staff to visit his adoptive mother in Sinh Phinh commune , on the way back from Trung Thu school.
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Parents
Moms and dads pitch in to help: constructing dormitories for their children, assisting with kindergarten classes and grinding cornmeal for school lunches.
Loading up bricks from Nam Dan Commune center to carry to an outlying village to build a branch school, Sin Man, District, Ha Giang Province .
Proud parents look on at scholarship awards ceremony for top students, mostly girls, at this school in Bac Kan Province.
No room at the dorm, these two boys from a distant village stay at the house of a Hmong family living near the school.
Heading out, with no bricks short of a full load, from Thong Nguyen Commune center to build a branch school at a remote village, in Hoang Su Phi District, Ha Giang.
Teachers
Teachers construct additional classrooms for overflow of students at Khong Hin Junior Secondary School at Na Say, Tuan Giao District, Dien Bien Province
Teachers' dormitories at remote commune schools are sometimes rustic at best, and may also house the their families, like this kindergartner heading to morning class.