School Support Project Laos

School Support Project Laos (SSPL) is a NGO that has been doing work in Laos for the last eight years. The aim of the project is to support primary education in Laos, focusing on Savannakhet province. 500 students receive school supplies each year - school uniforms, notebooks and stationary, etc. In addition, the students receive hygienical products for her or his family. The families to the students that are included in the project also receive visits regularly and the parents are encouraged to send their children to school.

Until now the main focus has been to support students attending schools in and close to the city of Savannakhet. Starting this year, we want to expand towards districts further away from the city. We have decided to expand the project to the districts of Phin and Sepon, close to the border between Laos and Vietnam. In this area, the government has build several new primary schools over the last couple of years. However, there is a lack of teachers, and many of the them have only completed the five years of primary education. The contribution by SSPL in this situation is to give schoolarship to students that are graduated from high school, so that they can attend the Teacher Training College in Savannakhet and become teachers in their home districts.

The last week, I went together with my sister Marit and her family to visit the 12 students that will receive schoolarship starting September. It was a really exciting trip that I will remember for a long time...