News stories by Melody Kemp

Before 2002, Chanhpheng Sivila held training workshops for the many Lao disabled women and men at her own house.

At the age of 13, Kommaly Chantavong, now 64, walked over 600 kms to Vientiane from her home in Lao’s northern province of Huaphan. She walked through the buzzing war with the French in bare feet. All she took were heirloom pieces of woven silk, legacies from her grandmothers.