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10,000 Subsidized TerraCare Filters in Homes!!!!
TerraCare is happy to announce that we have reached our first milestone: 10,000 subsidized filters in the homes of the needy throughout the 4 southern provinces of Laos! Amazing! That is over 50,000 people who now have clean drinking water IN THEIR OWN HOMES!!!! Since October 2020, TerraCare has been working diligently, one house at…
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TerraKids Teaches Child Rights in Xanasomboun!
TERRAKIDS! Amazing work! In March, the TerraKids team went to a village school in Xanasomboun District, in southern Laos. TerraKids had already presented 18 primary schools with TerraClear filters in each classroom and this day was the 19th school! In addition to providing filters, the TerraKids Team presented a half day program to the school,…
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TerraKids Reaches Community Leaders
By Dawn Lewis and Souksavanh Souvanny March 15, 2023 TerraKids is making an impact with community leaders in southern Laos! In January 2023, the TerraKids program organized a Teacher Training in Champasak District, southern Laos. The training is devoted to helping teachers be the first line of defense for their students to prevent risky behavior.…
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Pong, TerraClear’s Woman Representative
TerraClear has over 30 sales representatives that travel by motorbike throughout southern Laos, carrying filters on the motorbike, driving difficult dirt road, through mountains, to sell and deliver filters and train villagers. The work is hard and demanding. Most of the sales representatives are men, but in Dakcheung, one of the poorest, most remote and…
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Over 8600 Needy Families Have Clean Water in Southern Laos!!!
Almost 35,000 people (8600 families) in rural Laos are now drinking clean water in their own homes through the TerraCare subsidy program! This is an amazing statistic – because without filters for clean drinking water, these families were either drinking from open water sources (ponds, rivers, lakes) or shallow wells. Now with clean drinking water…
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TerraCare: A Story of Hope and Change in Paksong
As a trainer for the TerraCare program, Thip trains families about the need to drink clean water and have a toilet instead of open defecation. She also trains the families to wash their hands before they cook food, before they eat, and after defecation. Finally, she gives needy families the option to pay a small…
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2-Day Teacher Training Workshops Make an Impact
One teacher told us, “Thank you for facilitating such helpful discussions about the problems that our students face and how we can work together to find solutions. Meeting with fellow teachers to discuss these things was so empowering.” This was in response to our recent 2-day Teacher Training Workshops, which were organized and led by the TerraKids team for teachers from 46 different schools. Over 110…
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TerraKids Program to Host Workshops for Teachers in August 2021
The TerraKids Team recently received permission from education officials to host two Teacher Training Workshops in August 2021. We are grateful that the training is scheduled just before schools open for the new school year. This is a wonderful opportunity to share materials and techniques for teachers to use immediately as the new school year…
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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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Happy Lao New Year 2021 To All Our Family and Friends
On April 10, 2021 TerraClear employees and their families celebrated Lao New Year at Champi Waterfall in Paksong, Champasak with food, games and gifts. We are grateful for every one of our staff who traveled to join us on this occasion and for every employee’s hard work throughout the year. We had a week off…