Our Projects
Year-round, Windhorse Foundation raises funds to support our various projects in several Southeast Asian locations.
The Hmong Project
Hmong villagers needed to move from their mountainous homelands to a low-lying area along the banks of the Mekong River areas afflicted by malaria. The village became isolated after the relocation since there is no road to the village nor a boat for them to use on the river to sell crops, take their sick for medical treatment, or transportation for the children to go to school.
Windhorse support includes purchasing a boat, clothing, medical supplies, education materials and supplies for the local primary school, sponsorship of students for secondary school, and other support to assist in the creation of a better way of life.
Laung Prabang Orphanage Project
Windhorse is providing support to an orphanage on the outskirts of the historical town of Laung Prabang, Laos. The orphanage provides housing, food, health related assistance, and education for nearly 550 students from poor local peoples such as the Hmong, Khmu, and Lao within the area. These children are orphaned due to the death of their parents resulting from trauma, infection, childbirth and lack of medical care, most of which is not a cause of death in most other countries. Other children are abandoned, as their families are too poor to care for them.
Immediate needs of the orphanage include funds for building a new dormitory and toilets; providing food such as bread each morning, 4 eggs per week, and fruit weekly; soap, toothpaste and toothbrushes; and the educational support of the children including a full time teacher, school supplies, computers, and educational scholarships to advance high potential students.
Lao American College
Lao American College was founded 30 years ago in the capital city of Laos, Vientiene and is one of the Vientiene’s best private colleges. Promoting independent learning, the college offers instruction in high demand subjects such as business management and English and offers a Diploma and Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Business Administration. The college’s mission is to promote quality education, active learning, and to help develop and shape students to become productive citizens who can become community leaders who help eradicate poverty within Laos.
Support from Windhorse to Lao American College include raising funds to sponsor students education, equipment such as a new copy machine, student textbooks, books for the library, and support for teacher salaries.
Project Success Stories:
How generous donations have helped to make a difference.
The Akha Project
Activities included helping villagers in the Golden Triangle Region of Burma to develop sustainable income sources through the raising of cattle, building organic fisheries and farms, and ongoing support for an orphanage and its educational programs. The orphanage is now self-sufficient and sustainable by raising funds through organic fish farms and farm.
The Mlabri (Yellow Leaf) Project
“Mla bri” means forest people. These elusive, nomadic hunter-gatherer people are known for building temporary shelters out of bamboo with banana-leaf roofing. They leave these shelters about every seven to ten days, when the green leaves turn yellow, hence giving the Mlabri the popular name The Yellow Leaf.
In the last 25 years, due to the destruction of the forest and with wild animals disappearing, the Mlabri are now forced to live in a village in the mountains near Nan in Northern Thailand. They were barely sustaining survival in a de-forested territory that provided very little in the way of food. The Mlabri learned successfully to raise livestock and farmland that was purchased with the help of Windhorse. This created an upward trend for the Mlabri toward increased self-sustainability and a new way of life.
