In June 2012, this photographic installation, which I put together myself, went on display at the neighbourhood cafe I frequent. On the plaque below the photographs, it reads as follows:
Roland Drake, a regular fixture of this cafe, initiated his LOONIES FOR LAOS campaign by installing a small wooden donation box on these premises (December 2010 - April 2011). This was his way of not only helping to support the water filter project by ADOPT A VILLAGE IN LAOS, but to raise awareness of the existence of this organization. Over the course of this campaign, patrons deposited enough money to donate four water filter units, each one of which now provides clean drinking water to each of the families you see displayed.
The water filter project is just one of many projects in which this small Canadian charity is making a difference in the lives of the villagers of rural Laos, one of the ten poorest countries in Southeast Asia.
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