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Village Focus International (VFI) Lao PDR

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Village Focus International (VFI) is a small non-profit, U.S.-based organization empowering communities and leaders in Laos, Cambodia, and southern India. 

VFI Laos focuses on such issues as Youth Empowerment.  VFI Laos works to enhance the leadership skills of ethnic minority youth and create opportunities for youth to become empowered community leaders; to create scholarship opportunities for youth to attend high school and university; and to provide awareness and prevention of labor and sex trafficking affecting upland youth.

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Related external links

• Village Focus International
• UN Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (UNIAP)