AAR JAPAN - Projects and Activities in Lao P.D.R


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Laos

Since 2000, AAR JAPAN has supported production of wheelchairs and promoted the social participation of persons with disabilities (PWDs) at the wheelchair workshop located in Laos’ National Rehabilitation Center. In 2008, we began supporting the Welfare Facility for Children with Disabilities in the nation’s capital of Vientiane, and in September 2009, we began supporting victims of unexploded ordnance (UXO) including cluster munitions, still remaining in northern Laos as a result of the Vietnam War.

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Supporting Victims of Unexploded Ordnance (UXO)

Moa Son, 4 years old, was injured when he touched UXO found near his house. (Photo provided by WEC)

More than 2 million bombs were dropped during the Vietnam War of the 1960s and 1970s, leaving behind a vast number of undiscovered UXO, including cluster munitions. Decades after the conflict ended, the effects of UXO are still felt in Laos, with at least 100-300 people injured or killed by UXO each year.

Beginning in 2010, AAR JAPAN has been supplying first aid boxes for responding to UXO-related accidents, as well as offering first aid training to village health volunteers in the northern town of Xieng Khouang.

Moa Son, 4 years old, was injured when he touched UXO found near his house. (Photo provided by WEC)

Welfare Facility for Children with Disabilities

Young Toni works toward rehabilitation at the Bane Sainesouk Center

Since 2008, AAR JAPAN has been supporting the Bane Sainesouk Center, a welfare facility for children with disabilities in Vientiane. Aside from this center, there are no other facilities that accept children with disabilities in Laos.

Young Toni works toward rehabilitation at the Bane Sainesouk Center.

Wheelchairs Production and Distributing (2000－2011)

AAR JAPAN supported the wheelchair workshop in Vientiane from th year 2000. This support operation concluded in May 2011.