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PROJECT KAJSIAB, LAOS
Our client wanted to use gifts to express their values: •Growth •Entrepreneurship •Belief in people •Building fair relationships In addition, the gifts were to be environmentally friendly and send a message of quality and social responsibility DAGIZ offered high quality lapel pins made of reused metal with 50% of our profit contributed to Project Kajsiab Laos, that empowers some of the poorest mountain people in Laos by distributing knowledge about health, delivering education and improving skills. We invite you to join us and donate at: http://www.projectkajsiablaos.org/Kajsiab/Donation.html |
ABOUT PROJECT KAJSIAB
Kajsiab Family is a small grassroots Initiative that that with its unique combination of Hmong and Western perspectives on matters such as education, healthcare and women’s issues is selflessly seeking to improve the lives and health of some of the poorest people in the country. Kajsiab Family focuses on improving the lives of the mountain people by offering information concerning health and education, trainings and exchange of skills and customs between mountain people and volunteers.
Kajsiab seeks to empower the mountain people and works with new ways to earn an income and new skills to remain self sustainable in the mountains. Kajsiab Family is located in a thickly forested and mountainous area of northern Laos known as the Bokeo province. This is an area surrounded by valleys, rice fields and about 7 to 10 small communities of 200 to 400 people, which belong to ethnic minorities like the Hmong, the Lamet and the Lao Lu.
Challenges faced by the rural Villages of Bokeo Province:
Kajsiab Family is a small grassroots Initiative that that with its unique combination of Hmong and Western perspectives on matters such as education, healthcare and women’s issues is selflessly seeking to improve the lives and health of some of the poorest people in the country. Kajsiab Family focuses on improving the lives of the mountain people by offering information concerning health and education, trainings and exchange of skills and customs between mountain people and volunteers.
Kajsiab seeks to empower the mountain people and works with new ways to earn an income and new skills to remain self sustainable in the mountains. Kajsiab Family is located in a thickly forested and mountainous area of northern Laos known as the Bokeo province. This is an area surrounded by valleys, rice fields and about 7 to 10 small communities of 200 to 400 people, which belong to ethnic minorities like the Hmong, the Lamet and the Lao Lu.
Challenges faced by the rural Villages of Bokeo Province:
- Food Shortage
- No access to clean drinking water and sanitation
- Limited or no access to healthcare
- Financial insecurity, due to lack of reliable income