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Listening to the youth
Mr Sombath said our greatest hope is listening to the youth and listening to the children. He said the children in Laos are very smart and they have great ideas and want to be a part of the change in...
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Let the Young People Work on It
The most effective way of bringing about holistic education is the participation of young people in designing the future of our education and pattern of development. Young people themselves are more...
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Nature & Materialism
Our children have no time to exercise their innate curiosities and capacities to explore their world and its links with nature. They have no encouragement to develop their innate emotions of love and...
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Sombath ‘offers youth a role model’
Bangkok Post: 17 December 2014 Laos would be more culturally dignified and have more active young citizens if Sombath Somphone had not gone missing two years ago, according to a seminar held on Monday...
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ທ.ສົມບັດເປັນຕົວຢ່າງໃຫ້ ຊາວ ໜຸ່ມ
ວິທະຍຸເອເຊຍເສຣີ: 18 ທັນວາ 2014 ມາດາມ ອຶ້ງ ຊຸຍ ເມັງ ຍັງຕິດຕາມ ສືບທາວຫາ ທ່ານ ສົມບັດ ຕລອດມາ ຢ່າງບໍ່ທໍ້ຖອຍ ໃນ ຄວາມພຍາຍາມ ການ ສັມມະນາ ທີ່ ຈັດຂຶ້ນ ເມື່ອ ວັນທີ 15 ທັນວາ ຢູ່ ບາງກອກ ປະເທດໄທ ເນື່ອງ ໃນວັນ ຄົບຮອບ...
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Laos has a lot of potential
We need to have a balanced development. Balance between economic development, social development, environmental harmony, and most important of all is the development of our young people. They are the...
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Saving the Planet: It’s Alive!
This video about Sombath and PADETC’s work with schools and youth volunteers was produced by Saving the Planet in 2009. It is also available in Khmer, Nepali, and Sinhala.
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Our young Lao volunteers
This award is also for our young Lao volunteers and youth leaders, who have demonstrated to us, the adults, that they have the capacity, and indeed the right, to claim the space to determine their own...
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Dear Sombath…from Shui Meng
My dearest Sombath, Today is Father’s Day. I keep thinking of you on this day. You always say that even though we do not have any children of our own, it really does not matter, because you are always...
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Dear Sombath….from Amelia Merrick
Dear Sombath, This is the second or third letter I’ve written to you. I was too afraid to send you the other ones, but now that I’m in Canada I am less fearful. Sombath, there is so much I would like...
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