Project News

The Cattle Shed at Ban Xai and MiVAC’s Sign

Any visitors to Phonsovan will see the MiVAC sign in the main street opposite the Nice Hotel. The sign invites people to make inquiries within where they will be met by a relation of Yang’s (our Lao Manager) who runs a tourist company for Yang. Visitors will be told about

School at Pong Hor gets a Concrete Floor

The Eastern end of Ban Xai is a small village known as Pong Hor. This one room school is for the first year of children going to school so they are about 6 to 7 to 8 years old. After they complete this year they can then go to the

The Garden that Steve planted at Ban Xai

Before Steve and Dorene Carroll moved on to their well-deserved holiday in July 2012 they planted a garden at the MiVAC block at Ban Xai. MiVAC eventually wants to have the garden operating as a profit centre for the village. It will be well watered (irrigated in the dry season)

Building a Bio Sand Filter (BSF) to purify water

Anthony Higgs has been a lifelong friend of Andrew MacGregor, Sandy’s son, and when Anthony described his work to Sandy in SE Asia about building Bio Sand Filters (BSF) to purify water Sandy immediately introduced Anthony to Steve Carroll. Arrangements were made to have Anthony come to Ban Xai, source

The Cattle Shed at Ban Xai and MiVAC’s Sign

School at Pong Hor gets a Concrete Floor

The Garden that Steve planted at Ban Xai

Building a Bio Sand Filter (BSF) to purify water

Ban Xai update – 27 July 2012

Ban Xai update – 4 July 2012

Ban Xai update – 23 March 2012

Ban Xai update – 23 February 2012

Ban Xai update – 23 January 2012

Ban Xai update – 24 December 2011