Pictures tell a thousand words. This summer World Renew offers a gallery of images from nine countries, giving you a close up look at communities engaged in the work of renewal and building resilience.
Pictures tell a thousand words.
This summer World Renew offers a gallery of images from nine countries, giving you a close up look at communities engaged in the work of renewal and building resilience.
A Khmu woman working on a loom to make a typical Lao skirt, similar to the one she is wearing. PHOTO CREDIT: Tom Post, World Renew Asia Team Leader
An Ershi woman is removing the seeds from cotton. They grow a lot of cotton, remove the seed, spin it, dye with natural blue dyes and make their own clothing from it. PHOTO CREDIT: Ari Vitikainen
Young children often have to care for their younger siblings. PHOTO CREDIT: Ari Vitikainen
Rshi teenagers studying literacy during the night, with adapted literacy materials. These girls are using torches during their evening literacy classes for adults as there was no electricity in the village. After this, we did provide a solar energy system to improve the atmosphere for studying. PHOTO CREDIT: Ari Vitikainen
Students in a recently built classroom. World Renew and the community members worked together. Communities provided wood and labor and the project helped design a school, providing cement and bricks and tin sheets for the roof. PHOTO CREDIT: Ari Vitikainen
Adults attend literacy class: a teacher helping them practice sounds in Lao which are not easy for them to pronounce. PHOTO CREDIT: Ari Vitikainen
During literacy classes in an Ershi village, the adults take turns coming forward to practice saying the words written on the board. The teacher copied the lesson plan for the special literacy manual that we developed especially for the kinds of remote ethnic communities where very few people can read and write or even speak Lao. PHOTO CREDIT: Ari Vitikainen
The wife of the village leader. She is a good role model for other villagers in terms of keeping her house clean, exclusive breastfeeding for six months, etc. PHOTO CREDIT: Ari Vitikainen
Girls Carrying water. In this case, the girls are bringing water to the school latrines. PHOTO CREDIT: Ari Vitikainen
Mike Fennema, Laos Country Consultant: When traveling to remote communities, we often have to travel long distances. In this photo, we stopped for lunch along the road, opened the lid of the truck, spread out the food and had a quick lunch. The basket is full of sticky rice which is a staple in Laos. Laos is one of the only countries in the world where sticky rice is used as the main staple. (In most countries it is used in desserts). PHOTO CREDIT: Tom Post, World Renew Asia Team Leader
This is the traditional way to pound rice to remove the hull. PHOTO CREDIT: Ari Vitikainen
The first coffee harvest. This couple was one of the first seven families to experiment with planting coffee. Here they are learning how to remove the pulp from the coffee cherry to extract the bean for drying. PHOTO CREDIT: Tom Post, World Renew Asia Team Leader
