Laos is the lowest ranked Southeast Asian country in the UN Human Development Index (HDI), 40% of the country’s 6 million people live below the poverty line. Most of the poor people live in rural areas and in ethnic minority communities. Oxfam works with the rural communities in remote areas of Laos, to try and improve their lives through setting up different projects such as introducing sustainable agriculture and income generation projects.

In Laos, Oxfam Japan supports the coffee production project. The coffee production project aims to improve the production and sale of coffee in Southern Laos. Oxfam works with farmer production groups to improve techniques and the opportunities for sale of their coffee beans to the international markets.

As well the coffee production project, Oxfam Japan also supports a primary school project.
Find out more: http://www.oxfam.org.au/world/asia/laos/