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Laos Essential Artistry Posting Page
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
 On our Giving Back section in our website we begin with a quote from Oprah Winfrey from a Commencement Address she gave at Stanford in June 2008. "Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward you have to give back" To travel in a third world country like Laos, one can't help but see and feel in one's heart that there is so much that can be done to reach out and help in some meaningful way. For us, helping provide access to books, books Lao students can read and enjoy, is our way for helping make a difference. We now support the efforts of Big Brother Mouse, an organization that publishes books often written, and always illustrated, but young Lao people. On our last trip we donated books to two schools, an elementary school in Saphanthongtai, a village just outside the Vientiane city limits and a rural elementary school about four hours northwest of Vientiane. The school in Saphanthongtai is next to a small house we rent so that Bai's sister and brother can study in Vientiane. When we visit we often hear the students reciting their lessons and we thought it would be nice to provide a set of books for their small library. In the video you can see the pre-K students reading out loud from a lesson on a whiteboard. And of course they start with a "Sabaidee" to the guests/us! Aren't they cute? And in the photo you can see a group photo of the students with teacher and principal. In the photo and video, the boy with the blue shirt is named Peter Noy, "Small Peter." His parents live with their mother in a house with attached shop selling noodle soup. This house is catty corner to the house I used to rent and Peter Noy was named after me, Peter Nyai (Big Peter!), so I feel a special connection to him. by: Laos Essential Artistry 
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