ISBN: 9780980784893 - A School for Phoujong: An Intimate Insight Into Village Life in Remote Northernlaos (8 results)

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - A School For Phoujong tells the story of how a couple of veteran Australian journalists developed a project to build a new primary school for a remote and severely impoverished village in northern Laos. Phoujong Village has a population of about 300 mainly ethnic Yao and Hmong people.It has no electricity, just a rudimentary water supply and only primitive sewage facilities.The houses are mainly earthern-floored, with an open-hearth fire in the middle and the village had just one dilapidated hut used as a schoolfor more than thirty children aged from five to twelve, with only one teacher. Its an inspirational story abouthow the new school was funded and then built.over a period of just on eight weeks in early 2015, with several heart-warming consequences, including a new walking aid for a young student crippled by polio and a joint children's art exhibition with Chillingham Primary School in northern New South Wales.…

Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorTrish Clark has been a journalist all her working life, a period of over fifty years, in which she has worked as a newspaper columnist, a feature writer for major magazines and newspapers, a radio broadcaster and telev.

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