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An organization in the jungle of Laos

Welcome to Phamai,  an environmental and knowledge-based organization, that provides children in the jungle of Laos with the tools they need to create the future they deserve. 

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Our organization was started in 2016 with a mission to collaborate with local actors to provide educational programs to children and preserve the nature through our Clean the Jungle program.

 

We hope you want to join us on our way as a volunteer. 

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Join us in the jungle!

Join us if you want to help us on the way towards our mission to help a local community in Laos, either through education, administration or cleaning up the jungle. We need more people on our team, both locally and internationally, both long and short term - so please do not hesitate to let us know if you’re eager to help!

The Learning Lab

Our educational mission is to give underprivileged communities in Laos the possibility to create better opportunities for its children by offering a quality education based on local needs, and that this leads to a satisfactory future in terms of possibilities and resources.

Clean
the
Jungle

Our sustainability mission is to communicate the importance of preserving the Lao nature, and initiate sustainable projects which can reduce harmful ecological processes and clean up the jungle.

 An organization in the jungle of  Laos 

In 2009, 17 tribes in Laos were forced to move to a new village when their mountain area was turned into a dam for producing electricity. In their old tribes, they were hunters and lived off the land.

 

In the new village (called Phonsavath) set up by their government, they were given no land, and therefore, they had no possibilities to pursue their old life. As a result, people are poor, and many has moved from the village to take on hazardous and low-paying jobs elsewhere in Laos. The village offers little to no possibilities. 

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That is why we started Phamai in 2016 with the aim to provide local people with the tools they need to create the future they deserve. We started as an evening school for children, expanded with our environmental program a few years later and got a lot of volunteers from all over the world to help us. However, the pandemic hit us hard. We had to close down all activity and go into hibernation mode. Our manager Ana moved to Australia to study, with the aim to one day come back to Laos to breathe new live into our organization. The time has come, finally. We're still the same people in the time with the same passion for our mission, and we would love for you to come join us in Laos. 

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