The teachers at the target schools use the teaching-learning techniques that have been trained from the project

Teacher Kenta Inthathilat, 21-year-old, lives in Phanom Phon Village, Adsaphon District, Savannakhet Province. After graduating from 4th grade, she continued her studies at Savannakhet Teachers Training College (KM 7) and after graduation, she came back home to work as a volunteer teacher at Phanom Phon Primary School for 3 years. Teacher Kenta is one of the people who has paid attention to teaching students well. Before the project, she taught and used the curriculum she had learned, focusing on teaching methods according to textbooks, which is one of the reasons why students in the preparatory class tend to miss school and skip classes. Ms. Kenta, is a teacher also used the lessons she had learned and she noticed that her students were having more involved, making the students more diligent, bold and being able to write better, encouraging the teacher to bring the lessons learned to be used in teaching sessions as appropriate, and the teacher also used songs, stories, and games as a supplement before teaching so that the students could be relaxed and having a lot of fun before leading the students into the lesson, and Kenta could also observe from where the students could sing the song as well as the postures. Ms. Kenta also noticed that her students do not miss classes, the students are diligent, having fun and love learning Lao language such as pictures matching games and verbs using various activities from the training.

The teacher used these teaching techniques before classes, after the flag saluting and arranging in the schedule of the school's activities. Ms. Kenta said: "She is very impressed that the program trained new subjects, especially the teaching method that brought games and music to make students lively, fun, happy to learn, as well as receiving support from the program for teaching and learning materials such as musical instruments, which made the teaching of physical education well. It is impressive to organize activities in the school on Children's Day and National Teacher's Day." This is part of the success of our village school development project in Adsaphone District, Savannakhet Province. We have implemented training activities for primary school teachers in 12 target villages based on the indicators of the project's objectives, it could be seen that at least 80% of the teachers at the target school use the teaching techniques that have been trained by the project (65 teachers) because there is a rate of dropout and class arrears of students at the target school should be less than 5% (a total of about 913 students of 12 primary schools)

Mr. Koun and his school are located in Kangbon Village, Adsaphone District, Savannakhet Province

Mr. Khoun is 10 years old, studying in the grade 5, living with his family in Kang Bon Village, Adsaphone District, Savannakhet Province. He is a person who doesn't dare to express himself, every day he likes to go to the frog stalks according to the rural children's living style and often missing school regularly. One of the reasons is that because of the environment of the school is not interesting enough to make him coming to school. The project has promoted activities for students’ participation and made children’s outdoor playground inventions. It could be observed that he comes to school earlier, during the break time he has a place to play around and have fun, the student's spirit is cheerful because he plays new things together with many friends. Koun's story shows precisely how the school environment or the teaching technique using only textbooks couldn’t attract the attention of students. Through the implementation of project activities by promoting and training primary teachers to use new techniques in teaching younger students to make students more attractive and not missing school.

The project supported building a room for reading books, 1 book storage container/school plastic storage container for books, 449 story books, 2 stories each, a total of 1,298 books, equipment and teaching materials for 12 schools, such as wooden rulers (long rulers, triangles ruler square, triangles rulers and angles) 10 sets, 8 thinking cards, 6 Lao alphabet cards, 8 English alphabet cards, 8 blank cards, 7 number cards, 11 picture and name cards of animals, 12 picture and name cards of profession, 12 picture and fruit name cards, 12 Lao spelling posters, 12 body vocabulary posters (Lao/English) 12 posters, 12 Lao recipes multiplication posters, 5 Lao vowel posters, 6 Lao map posters, 6 world map posters and 4 simulated earth units.