In the Blue

Saturday morning I was playing with pots of indigo dye, making a silk tie dye scarf at Houey Hong Vocational Training centre.   I went with agroup of staff from school and you can see us proudly wearing our scarves at the end of the day. 

The lady in the middle in apricot is the founder of the Centre is Ms. Chanthasone Inthavong, a Vientiane native, now living and working in Tokyo, Japan. In 1982 she set up Action with Lao Children (ALC), a literacy non-governmental organisation.  She lives and works in Tokyo to fund the Centre and its work and we were lucky to meet her on Saturday as she is back for a while to help improve the business.  Her sister, Sengmany Vongsipasom, front right, returned to Vientiane after 20 years living in the USA, manages the day-to-day operations.a