TerraCare
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After 2 years, I still love my filter!
By Mr. Vilaiphone Xaiyasen Mr. Vilaiphone is a sales representative for TerraClear. He loves his job, selling filters to families all throughout the district of Ta-Oy, in Salavahn Province. His sales area includes about 100 villages, which he rotates through every few months. While Mr. Vilaiphone loves selling the filters, he loves even more when…
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Truck, Boat, Tok-Tok….Getting the Filters to the Village!
Delivering the filters to 35 families in Phoneton Village, Salavan was a challenge this week! First, the filters were delivered to the warehouse weeks ago, waiting for the right time to deliver. On Wednesday, three TerraCare workers prepared for delivery to Phoneton. Located far from the main road, Phoneton is located across a river that…
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Tippy Tap Sunday in Lom Sak Thai Village
On Sunday, 15 August, more that 20 families built Tippy Tap handwashing stations outside their homes in the Lom Sak Thai Village in Champasak. One of the TerraCare trainers, Nith, decided to teach about clean hands and Tippy Taps after the Sunday church service in the village. Many families from the church, but also many…
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TerraClear Gives Opportunity to Workers: A Better Life for Khamming
Hello everyone, my name is Khamming and I am a sales representative with TerraClear in Vientiane, the capital of Laos. I graduated from high school with a degree in electricity, but had an accident and had to take care of myself by staying at home for a year. After recovering, I started working as a…
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A story of change for Mae Ning’s family
In June, the TerraCare team had a follow up visit to Nam Tang Village, Pak Song District, Champassak Province. The team was there to train, monitor and observe customers who had received a water filter from TerraCare. These villagers have also received several lessons teaching about benefits of drinking clean water, handwashing, dry latrine construction…
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The Great Contribution of the Ban Abe Village Organization
Hello, my name is Bounyoun Siengthong and I want to share my work experience as a TerraClear sales representative. First of all who read this, hello to people who care about clean water in Laos, people who help financially to see this work done, also to all TerraClear staff, whether it is the production team,…
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TerraClear gets Vaccinated
Laos began vaccinating for COVID mid-March, using AstraZeneca (132,000 doses, donated through the UN COVAX program) and Sinopharm (1.4 million doses donated by the Chinese government). The goal is to vaccinate 50% of the population in Laos by the end of 2021. TerraClear has participated in the vaccination effort with 15 employees already fully vaccinated…
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COVID Lockdown Comes to Laos!
COVID finally arrived in Laos. For one year, Laos was able to keep COVID at bay, by carefully requiring quarantine for all arrivals into Laos. For one year, the cases of COVID in Laos were less than 50, with no community transmission. Then, Lao New Year 2021 (April 14-16) was celebrated in a more normal…
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Tippy Tap Handwashing Station in Dakcheung
Written By Anousone Ngonephetsy – TerraCare Team Leader On March 9, the TerraClear sales promotion team traveled to Dakcheung District in southern Laos to give lessons on health and hygiene to villagers. These villagers received TerraClear filters through the TerraCare program which gives subsidized filters to poor families throughout southern Laos. During the training, it…
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French Ambassador Florence Jeanblanc-Risler Visits TerraClear
Today TerraClear Production was very proud to welcome French Ambassador Florence Jeanblanc-Risler to our factory. TerraClear has been fortunate to have many French partners and friends over the years who have supported the work of TerraClear. It was an honor to introduce our staff, products and programs to Ambassador Jeanblanc-Risler who is such an important…