POV499104: Metalworker (female) 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
POV499164: Villager (male) in fishpond showing hand-netted fish in remote tropical forest village, Korsan Tai, Phienghong, Nonghet District, Xieng Khouang Province, Laos, Indochina, Southeast Asia MORE INFO: UDIN (Integrated Upland Development in Nonghet), a project supporting the most isolated and underdeveloped communities in Nonghet District to bring a better standard of living and quality of life to its people through a broad participatory approach and active involvement of target beneficiaries, implemented by Helvetas Laos, a Swiss Association for International Cooperation & Development, see: www.helvetas-laos.org / Bridgeman Images