Humana People to People

Our Mission

HPP Laos implements quality community projects to provide vulnerable people with the knowledge, skills and tools to improve their well-being. HPP Laos' community-led projects particularly benefit marginalized and vulnerable populations in rural and remote communities, particularly women, children, youth, and ethnic minorities. HPP Laos' projects focus on sustainable agriculture, environmental protection, maternal and child health and nutrition, disease prevention and community development. Our core value is to work alongside the poorest and most marginalized people in the most remote, often forgotten, and vulnerable communities, empowering them to work together and achieve the change they want. Our work is based on the ethic of supportive humanism, which empowers people to drive their own development and ensures that they lead the decision-making, implementation, and ongoing evaluation of the activities of the project. HPP Laos is legally registered as a representative office (Laos Registration#: 057/AE.O1.3) of the Humana People to People (HPP) Federation, a global network of 29 organizations headquartered in Zimbabwe and working in 43 countries, some of them for more than 40 years. HPP Laos benefits from the accumulated experience and expertise of its HPP partner organizations worldwide through this affiliation. HPP Laos' methodology is mainly participatory and places the needs of local communities at the centre of its projects while adapting its capacity to support communities as best as possible. Another key pillar of HPP Laos' approach is a close working relationship with the Laotian authorities, which has resulted in many successful community development projects in Bolikhamxay and Khammouane provinces. Consequently, Lao authorities have invited HPP Laos to propose new development projects to support vulnerable communities. For example, health officials asked HPP Laos to establish another TB referral project in northern Oudomxay based on the achievements of projects in the two central provinces. 2 Since 2011, HPP Laos' inclusive approach has benefited 90,000 marginalized people in 180 villages, mainly in the provinces of Bolikhamxay and Khammouane. It has supported 36,000 vulnerable people through climate-resilient agriculture and led TB awareness campaigns for 485,000 people, with 315,000 screenings and 720 patients on TB treatment. List of Main Donors: EU, Expertise France L'initiative, Global Fund, Asian Development Bank, GEF SGP, Luxembourg Development, Planet Aid, WWF, IUCN, Gilead Sciences, and the German, Canadian, Czech, Australian, and United States embassies in Laos.