POV499099: Metalworker (male) casting spoons made from recycled aluminium sourced from war debris and melted in an earthen kiln in remote ethnic Lao Lum village, Ban Naphia, the "War Spoon/Bracelet village" where, in cottage industries, war scrap (bomb and plane metal from Second Indochina War) is melted down and moulded into spoons - 150000/year - and bracelets, motto: "Make Spoons/Bracelets not War" Phaxay District, Xieng Khouang Province, Laos, Southeast Asia MORE INFO: RISE (Rural Income through Sustainable Energy), a project supporting remote communities in gaining access to sustainable and locally produced clean energy and using local resources to generate income while safeguarding the environment, implemented by Helvetas Laos, a Swiss Association for International Cooperation & Development, see: www.helvetas-laos.org / Bridgeman Images
POV499101: War debris/bombs/bombies/UXO on display in Ban Naphia, the "War Spoon/Bracelet village" where, in cottage industries, war scrap (bomb and plane metal from Second Indochina War) is melted down and cast into spoons and bracelets, motto: "Make Bracelets not War" Phaxay District, Xieng Khouang Province, Laos, Southeast Asia MORE INFO: RISE (Rural Income through Sustainable Energy), a project supporting remote communities in gaining access to sustainable and locally produced clean energy and using local resources to generate income while safeguarding the environment, implemented by Helvetas Laos, a Swiss Association for International Cooperation & Development, see: www.helvetas-laos.org / Bridgeman Images
POV499126: Participants in village meeting in schoolhouse discussing community needs in remote tropical mountain village, village man with small domestic PV solar panel Ban Mai, Namkha, Paek District, Xieng Khouang Province, Laos, Southeast Asia MORE INFO: RISE (Rural Income through Sustainable Energy), a project supporting remote communities in gaining access to sustainable and locally produced clean energy and using local resources to generate income while safeguarding the environment, also supporting communities on social & health issues implemented by Helvetas Laos, a Swiss Association for International Cooperation & Development, see: www.helvetas-laos.org / Bridgeman Images