laos
Mekong
Vientiane, Laos, on the banks of the sleepy Mekong river, is a city in the midst, a confluence of traditional Buddhist culture, bureaucratic communism and an emerging consumer marketplace of goods and ideas. Some young men spend a year or so in a monastery after high school, and then continue their education or go into business. Others readily accept contemporary Western accoutrements and are drawn to the flash of modern life.
This image, shot late in the afternoon on the riverside levee, highlights the juxtaposition of old and new, with a warm yellow glow contrasting the silhouetted figures, the parasol and the motorbike,
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Jhai Foundation
The Jhai Foundation, formerly known as Project Hearts and Minds, has operated in Laos for over ten years. Founded by a former Vietnam veteran and peace activist, Lee Thorn, and Laotian refugee group organizater, Bounthanh Phommasathit, Jhai Foundation is dedicated to grass-roots reconciliation betweeen the American and Laotian people, through village level development projects.
This project covered Jhai Foundation projects in hospitals, villages and schools in Vientiane province, as well as Laotian cultural images for use in fundraising.
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