Lao Flood Relief

I live 70km from a dam wall. If it was to break, I'd have twelve minutes before my world was submerged.

Laos, located between Thailand and Vietnam, is in the process of building hydropower dams. Except one dam wall has broken.  5 billion cubic meters of unsanitised water gushed through villages leaving 6,600 people (or more) homeless, near all possessions gone. So many are already very poor people, and they don't have insurance or stacks of money in the bank. Cash is made of paper. Their farms are ruined and homes destroyed. Added to this, one third of bombs deployed in Laos during the Vietnam War never exploded, and the volume of water and shifting mud has brought bombs back to the surface and into once-cleared areas.

People need water filters, mosquito nets, gas cookers and gas, food supplies, and a range of daily needs to help get them back on their feet. It is a long road ahead for them, not only practically but emotionally. Some people are still on roofs waiting for the water to go down, supplies being dropped to them via helicopters.

Map of the areas affected by the bombs can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/jerry.redfern/posts/10216581742763808.

$5,000 will help several families restart their lives. Money raised will go to friends and contacts I know in Pakse from the six months I spent there last year. Every bit will help make lives a little better!

(Please see https://www.gofundme.com/pricing for fee structuring.)