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[[Image:Konglochildren.jpg|Children in Laos]] |
[[Image:Konglochildren.jpg|left|Children in Laos]] |
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The children of '''Tham Lot Kong Lo''' made it to the [http://www.laptop.org/vision/index.shtml main OLPC website]. Maybe you want to know more about this children. |
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[http://www.laptop.org/vision/index.shtml |OLPC Website] |
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Maybe you want to know more about this children. |
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To bring the laptop to |
To bring the laptop to these children will be a real challenge. |
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==Where do the children live== |
==Where do the children live== |
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The children live in one of the most remote places on |
The children live in one of the most remote places on earth. The village is called '''Tham Lot Kong Lo''' in [[OLPC Laos|Laos]]. It takes 2 days to get there from the capital city (Vientianne). |
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The village is called Tham Lot Kong Lo and is in Laos. |
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To go there from the Lao Capital Vientianne it is a 2 day trip. |
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The '''only''' transportation link that '''Tham Lot Kong Lo''' has with the rest of the world is a river, ''that goes through a '''7 km cave''''' and takes about an hour to cross—there are '''no roads''' to the village. |
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The village is behind a 7km Cave. The only way to go there is the cave. There is no road to the village. |
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The ride throu the cave take about 1 hour. |
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Here some |
Here are some pictures of a typical trip to the village... enjoy the ride! |
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=== Dirt road to the river cave === |
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=== The river cave === |
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The only way to cross the cave (and reach the village) is by boat. |
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=== The children === |
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The children in their class room |
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Image:Classroomleft.jpg|left side |
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Image:Classroomright.jpg|right side |
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Image:Laosgirls.jpg|girls |
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Image:Laosboys.jpg|boys |
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Latest revision as of 04:11, 4 November 2007
The children of Tham Lot Kong Lo made it to the main OLPC website. Maybe you want to know more about this children.
To bring the laptop to these children will be a real challenge.
Where do the children live
The children live in one of the most remote places on earth. The village is called Tham Lot Kong Lo in Laos. It takes 2 days to get there from the capital city (Vientianne).
The only transportation link that Tham Lot Kong Lo has with the rest of the world is a river, that goes through a 7 km cave and takes about an hour to cross—there are no roads to the village.
Here are some pictures of a typical trip to the village... enjoy the ride!
Dirt road to the river cave
Click the images to enlarge.
The river cave
The only way to cross the cave (and reach the village) is by boat.
going in...
... dark inside...
...exit light...
...other side
Click the images to enlarge.
The children
The children in their class room
left side
right side
girls
boys
Click the images to enlarge.
