Our ten-person team is headed for a remote setting that lacks electricity, phone lines and internet connection. We would like to keep our supporters informed about our efforts but timely communication via the internet just isn’t possible at this time. For now, the best we can do is to post photographs that document the...
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WHWV provides help directly to individuals or communities impoverished by war; the organization partners with other nongovernmental organizations to provide services as needed. We have no shortage of challenges or ideas; we are limited only by the amount of resources we have to share.
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Since the year 2000, we have been assembling a museum-quality collection of cultural artifacts. The items we acquire have seen actual use in Lao, Hmong, Khamu, Akha and other ethnic communities throughout Laos. Accompanying each artifact are photographs documenting the context in which the item is used within family or community life. The collection...
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The Exhibit As we have worked in America and Southeast Asia we have assembled a remarkable collection of photographs, videos, cultural artifacts, oral histories and other documents. These resources have been organized into a traveling exhibition entitled, From Laos to America: Changing Worlds, Changing Lives. Schools, universities, student groups, museums, cultural centers, religious congregations and...
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Laos is the most heavily bombed country in the world. During the Indochina War, American planes flew 580,000 bomb runs over Laos and dropped more than 2 million tons of bombs, including over 200 million cluster bomblets. Today, as many as 27 million bomblets remain. Since the war ended, more than 40,000 Lao people...
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