Pakxoun School

Completed in November 2013

Pakxoun Primary School is located in Pakxoun village, district of Pak Kading, province of Khammouane, approximately 180 km (3 hours drive) southeast of Vientiane. When SKL visited in 2012 to determine eligibility, the existing school housed 34 students from grades 1 to 3. Since it was a relatively new settlement, the village was expanding and school enrollment for September 2012 was expected to increase by 59% (to 54 students).

Viengkham Lower-Secondary School

Completed in December 2015

Viengkham Lower Secondary School is about a 2½ hour drive northwest of Vientiane in Vientiane Province. The school housed 235 students and had 17 teachers on staff. It serves six villages. The student population increases by 25-30 students per year. There were three buildings, two of which were temporary bamboo and wood structures with dirt floors. The students needed an appropriate learning facility and as such, required five new classrooms. They had a well but it was running dry and so the school would benefit from a new deep water supply.

Na Chantai School

Completed in December 2016

SKL scouted three locations and found Ban Na Chantai met required criteria. The village is located in the southern province of Savannakhet, an eight-hour drive south of Vientiane which meant increased costs to build the school. There were 110 students in the school with three teachers. However, authorities agreed to hire at least two more teachers for the new 5-classroom school. The existing building had dirt floors, and huge holes in the walls, exposing students to the elements.

Na Yè School

Completed in August 2018.

This school is sponsored by the Wasabi Group of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Ban Na Yè is located in Vanvieng District, Vientiane Province, approximately a 4-hour drive north of the capital city. The village, surrounded by organic orange orchards, is expanding rapidly as Highland people are enticed by local government to settle in the low lands. The existing school is in a severe state of dilapidation with dirt floors and tarps separating "classrooms". There is no electricity and no water source. There are 138 students in Grades 1-5. 

Kangxé School

Completed in December 2018.

The village of Kangxé in Savannakhet province (9-hour drive south of Vientiane capital city) is a poor community located in one of the most under-served regions in the country. The existing school is in serious disrepair and too small to accommodate all the children in the village.

Thanks to continued support from the Millennium Volunteer Group of Singapore, the McAdam Foundation, the Hastings Foundation, the Manitoba Council for International Cooperation, The Philanthropic Foundation of Washington, DC, Phouvong Phamisith in Vientiane and generous donors from Canada, USA, and Laos, the school children of Ban Kangxé and local villages will have a new school with sanitary washrooms, running water and electricity.

Nong Chung School

Completed in December 2019

Ban Nong Chung is located in Hinboun district, Khammouane province, a 5-hour drive south-east of Vientiane capital. It is a growing village populated with 438 inhabitants, mostly subsistence farmers. The existing 3-room school is in dilapidated condition with dirt floors, and huge holes in the walls, exposing students to the elements. There is no electricity, washrooms or running water. Currently, grades 4 and 5 are taught in one combined class. 

SKL will provide a 5-classroom school large enough to accommodate Grades 1-5 (100 students) in individual classrooms. Not only will the project protect the children and teachers from the elements, but also it will give them sanitary washrooms, running water (installation of a deep well water pump), and electricity.