Attapeu authorities and the province’s Red Cross staff on Sunday deliver clothes and blankets, educational equipment, and a large amount of consumer goods and other supplies worth more than 367 million kip to impoverished households in Xanxay district. The donated items will be distributed to families in need to help ease their daily burden. --Photo Hatsady Soutdavong

Wives of Party and state leaders last week deliver medical equipment worth more than 200 million kip to the Cancer Center for use in patient treatment. --Photo Centre of Information and Education for Health

Provincial and district officials in Huayxai district, Bokeo province, on Monday help immunise children against polio and measles. Children aged 0-59 months throughout the province are being given the oral vaccination to protect them against these two childhood diseases. --Photo Bounchan Bounpanya

Deputy Director of the Lao-Korea Rural Development and Agricultural Technical Service Centre, Mr Bounleua Sihalath (centre), joins representa-tives from the Sonphasak Labour Service Company and a group of aspiring workers on Friday at the close of an agricultural skills course. Held at the centre from February 25-27, the programme was designed to ensure partic-ipants were well prepared before their departure for jobs in the Republic of Korea. The curriculum covered basic modern farming techniques, including crop cultivation, irrigation management, pest control, and livestock handling. Mr Bounleua praised the trainees for their dedication and urged them to ap-ply their new skills to maximise productivity and efficiency during their work on farms in Korea. The trainees were given certificates and collectively pledged to work hard and deliver satisfaction.