Open Air Cinema Foundation Returns to Laos

From the Open Air Cinema archive. Originally published in 2011, a first-person Foundation dispatch on a return trip to Laos. Preserved as a historical record.

I'm on a train passing over the Mekong for a return visit to Laos. The Open Air Cinema Foundation is looking to connect with the coordinators of the risk education programs at the Mines Advisory Group (MAG) and UXO Lao.

There are still many active bombs and munitions leftover from the Vietnam War. Our goal is to work with these organizations to take our outdoor cinema systems into the villages to educate villagers and children how to report UXO when it is found, and avoid injury.

I'll be visiting the offices of both organizations tomorrow and will be updating here on the blog as I go along.