Many student groups from Singapore visit Laos for community work as part of “growing people-to-people ties that anchor our friendship”, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said during a recent visit to Vientiane.
NUS student volunteers and their Laotian peers engaging students at the Sanot Primary School in Sanot Village, Vientiane. VIENTIANE: Despite not knowing much about Laos , undergraduate Erwin Soh still took a leap of faith, heading over for 17 days to help out at a local school.
Laos is seen by youths as an “intriguing and mysterious” destination as it is relatively less known, she told CNA.Her organisation runs projects across Southeast Asia and in China and Nepal. Last month, the 19-year-old spent two weeks in Phuanmit School in Oudomxay, a province in the northwest of the country, where she taught students and helped improve its facilities.“Having participated in local community service, I wanted to broaden my perspective and experience how other countries tackle unique challenges, particularly in a developing nation like Laos, where access to basic services and infrastructure is limited.
National University of Singapore undergraduate Erwin Soh conducting an activity with students from Sanot Primary School. In Mr Soh's case, local volunteers recruited by Laotian partner Rise Development Community Club thus had to step in to work with their Singaporean counterparts in every class, to ensure learning materials were translated and conveyed to the students.
Apart from language barrier issues, the rural schools also lacked access to digital tools typically used in Singapore, such as the game-based learning platform Kahoot!.
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