Communiqué
The Humpty Dumpty Institute
Monthly Communiqué from Laos
April 2008
The Humpty Dumpty Institute is pleased to announce the following achievements from its Food for Education project in Laos for the month of April.
- 108 of 110 schools in Bualapha, Gnommalath and Mahaxay districts reported that all students attended at least 80% of classes.
- 153,539 nutritional snacks served (1,230,690 snacks served to date).
- 5,781 take home rations provided (3,041 to girls, and 2,745 to boys).
- 16 school improvement projects completed this month, 52 completed to date (23 latrines, one structural renovation, four new classrooms and 23 school floors, and one gravity-fed water system extension).
- International Relief and Development distributed 2,964 school kits and quilts to kids in 21 schools.
- 69,327 m² of land cleared of UXO.
- 100 UXO destroyed.
For more information on HDI's work in Laos, please contact Dr. Robert Keeley, the HDI Laos Country Director, at Bob.Keeley@thehdi.org
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Community labor mixing and pouring the cement floor in school improvement project |
Students receiving their quilt and school kit from the teacher |
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