RESULTS
33
Projects
35 639
People with access to water supply
2 344
People with access to healthcare
120
Children in schools
Drum roll, please 🥁 Terre des Sourires is pleased to announce the arrival of a new member in its team 🥳 Stephanie Garde!
As Senior Fundraising and Project Officer from the Syni program ! Stephanie brings over 10 years of experience managing multi-million dollar child protection projects around the world, as well as two Masters degrees in Business & Human Rights and Management of Humanitarian Projects and NGOs Development 💪
With her killer skillset, we’re confident Stephanie will help us make an even greater impact in Laos and beyond.
Welcome aboard Stephanie 🚀 We’re thrilled to have you on the team and can’t wait to see what we can achieve together !!!
The Ban Nahom communities are thankful to finally have access to drinkable water and the various services offered by our water kiosk. On November 8, we started a hygiene prevention program by distributing free soap and reminding people about the fundamentals of hand washing. This action was particularly appreciated by the villagers.
But beyond the acute need for drinkable water and hand hygiene, access to education is also expressed as essential by the inhabitants of the region.
The Mayor of Ban Nahom village, Somchith Kansanith, has been leading a solidarity campaign over the last few months to collect the necessary funds from families to build a new secondary school for the 420 students in the region.
During our meeting on November 8th, he informed us of their need for the remaining $ 500.00 to build the concrete pillars of the school. Below are photos of the current school:
Aware of the importance of this project and admiring this movement of solidarity, our team wishes to support them and allow the 420 students of the region to benefit from an adequate structure ensuring their training and their future.
For this reason, we need your help. The donations received so far are dedicated solely to the construction of our water kiosks. So we are now soliciting you to collect this amount. Every amount, no matter how small, is precious to us. I enclose below the QR code of our Association.
Thank you very much for your support 🙏
Donors will receive a donation attestation and will, of course, be informed about the progress of the project.
Since December 1st 2020, Ly Chongheuly has been hired as Project Manager and Director of TdS Laos. His enthusiasm, curiosity and initiative have enabled him to acquire great skills in the field of social entrepreneurship and drinking water supply.
For more than two years, we worked remotely under particularly difficult conditions. Despite the many difficulties, sleepless nights and stressful moments, we managed to create “TdS Community Drinking Water Company, sole, ltd.”, ensuring that TdS Switzerland would be able to meet the objectives of our social entrepreneurship concept presented to our precious donors. Without him, we would not have succeeded.
Beyond his professionalism, Ly is a trustworthy person who works with his heart and out of love for his people. I would like to thank him warmly for this precious collaboration which is the key to our success!
Team dynamics and cohesion are essential to achieve the goals we have set. Thanks to our communication, our common goals, but also our differences, our Association can now say that it has the main foundations for a successful team! It should be remembered that Ly currently has 5 employees under his responsibility. An important management task which he carries out with brio.
Below, a photo in front of the Oudomxay office with Longmoua, who also plays a key role in our projects. Thank you to the entire TdS Laos team 🙏
In the name of all the team of the Association Terre des Sourires, Switzerland and Laos, we warmly thank the Rotary Club of Nogent-le-Rotrou for its financial support in the framework of our water projects in Laos, Province of Oudomxay. In addition to their generosity, we were moved by their empathy with the various challenges that Laos is currently facing, both in economic terms as well as the global issues of the rural regions in which we are working.
To start off the week on a positive note, I am thrilled to share some good news with you ! After over a month and a half of hard work, sleepless nights, and the inevitable stress of social entrepreneurship work.
I am delighted to announce that the drilling operation for the second community water kiosk in TdS has been successfully completed!
The well was drilled to a depth of 92 meters, providing a high flow rate to meet the clean water needs 💧of the three villages in the Huanambak region, Xay district, Oudomxay Province 🇱🇦 The construction of the building will commence shortly! I
I look forward to sharing more updates as we embark on the next phase of constructing the building.
I would like to express my gratitude to our precious donors for their trust, the contracted company and our team for their perseverance and dedication to this project 🙏 Together, we are making a lasting difference in the lives of the rural communities we serve.
We are proud to have two wonderful women on our local team who work tirelessly to respond to the drinking water
needs of the Nahom region. #team#gender#water#work
Promoting gender equality is a core value of our Association !
That’s why we are committed to fostering a workplace where everyone can thrive and be authentic. Chai Lee and Maicha Vue reinforces our belief that a diverse and inclusive workplace leads to better outcomes for all !
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the TdS team, especially our Project Manager @Ly Chongheuly who skillfully manages our field actions and Longmoua HX who works diligently alongside him. Kudos to the entire team!
On November 8, 2007, the Terre des Sourires Association was born from a dream, to support the forgotten populations of Laos.
After 10 years of intervention in the field of drinking water, we took an important turn towards our current sustainable concept, social entrepreneurship.
Today, we can proudly state the relevance of our model of community water kiosks, but also its importance in the region of Ban Nahom, Beng district, Oudomxay province.
The last three days spent in the field have confirmed our willingness to pursue our project with confidence that it responds to the basic needs of the target populations.
A meeting was held today with the six most important village chiefs of the Ban Nahom region. They all expressed their enthusiasm for the actions of our team. The quality of our water and our services were cited as being of considerable value. The feedback from the beneficiaries was equally positive.
An article will follow shortly on the next important step we are preparing which will have a considerable impact for the communities of the Ban Nahom region. In the meantime, I’ll let you discover some pictures of this wonderful day of sharing and exchange which marks the fifteenth year of TdS . ☺️🙏
After more than two years of long-distance collaboration, we are finally together 🙏 What a joy to meet the entire Terre des Sourires Laos team who worked tirelessly during the pandemic, and who bravely faced the recent floods that the country has recently suffered.
A smiling, dynamic team who are proud to work with their people to improve the living conditions of communities in their area, Ban Nahom.
Since July, deadly floods have been affecting Laos.
Today, our local team based in Oudomxay, a previously unspoilt province, is experiencing severe flooding. The water in the rivers keeps rising. The days to come look disastrous with undeniable consequences in terms of health, food security, access to drinking water, lack of electricity, lack of health centres able to receive the victims of this natural disaster.
Emotions are strong, fear is growing 😔🥲 I feel totally powerless to live this drama from Switzerland. Despite the distance, my heart goes out to our team, to the Laotian people… what else can I do? 😥😢😢😢😢I have no words to express my pain, my anguish…..
I share with you some photos sent by our project manager Ly Chongheuly.
