From Pasaxon Newspaper on 16/3/2017.

Headline: Savannakhet inhabitants actively participate in the Saemaul Undong Project.

H.E. Mr. Santiphap PHOMVIHAN, the governor of Savannakhet province and relevant authorities of departments visited the pilot villages in Saemaul Undong project at Champhone and Songkhone districts on 13th March 2017.

He found that many villagers of the pilot villages have self-motivation to actively participate in this project.

H.E. Mr. Santiphap PHOMVIHAN visited the project of Saemaul Undong which is supported by Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) in Lao PDR. The project targets 13 pilot villages in 2 districts, Songkhone (5 villages) and Champhone (8 villages) with the total budget of 3.9 million US dollars, and consists of 2 main components which are income generation activity such as grassland establishment, mushroom cultivation, orchard farm, green house, home garden etc., and infrastructure construction to develop communities, for example the village offices, access road to the villages, village hall, renovation and repairing schools, waste treatment and village¡¯s market, access the water supply and others which reflect the need of each village.

Since the project started, the project has made good progress because of the active participation of the villagers in this project. Therefore, the construction of 13 village offices (by contribution of project 70%, villagers 30%), access road for 12 villages (by contribution of project 70%, villagers 30%), access water supply to 400 households (by contribution of project 50%, villagers 50%) and other sub-activities have been completed.

This year, the Saemaul Undong project will continue to implement the activities related with promotion of community development and income generation to eradicate poverty step by step in line with the Lao government policy.