Member of a demining team at work,
Khammouane, Laos
Copyright: MAG/Bart Verweij
Member of a demining team at work,
Khammouane, Laos
Copyright: MAG/Bart Verweij
Copyright: MAG/Bart Verweij
We do whatever it takes to get to a
landmine before another child does.
©MAG/Bart Verweij
We do whatever it takes to get to a landmine before another child does.
©MAG/Bart Verweij
Two year-old Tiek was living in a world with cloudy vision and facing a future without schooling, and a greater chance of developmental issues.
Then, a mobile eye cam visited Tiek’s village and that changed everything.
Photo taken on assignment for The Fred Hollows Foundation.
Two year-old Tiek was living in a world with cloudy vision and facing a future without schooling, and a greater chance of developmental issues.
Then, a mobile eye cam visited Tiek’s village and that changed everything.
Photo taken on assignment for The Fred Hollows Foundation.
Copyright: Fred Hollows/Bart Verweij
Photo taken on assignment for a SNV Wash program.
©Bart Verweij/SNV
Photo taken on assignment for a SNV Wash program.
Photo taken on assignment for a SNV WASH program.
Photo taken on assignment for a SNV WASH program.
Woman getting water from a well. Photo taken on assignment for a SNV Wash program.
©Bart Verweij/SNV
Coffee trader, Bolaven Plateau Southern Laos
Photo taken on assignment for ILO
©Bart Verweij/ILO
Bolaven Plateau, Southern Laos
Photo taken on assignment for ILO
©Bart Verweij/ILO
Upland rice farmers weeding, Northern Laos
Photo taken on assignment for MRLG.
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Upland rice farmer weeding steep mountain rice field.
Photo taken on assignment for MRLG Laos.
Copyright: MRLG/Bart Verweij
Woman planting rice in rice paddies owned by her family.
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Women returning to their village after a day of weeding upland rice fields and foraging food on their way back.
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Health Volunteer Ms. Chanthalone Latsangern (30)Phorsen village, Taoy district Saravan province, Lao PDR.
Unicef-supported outreach brings free health services to Lao village.
©Bart Verweij/Unicef
Hian and her daughter Nana visited the clinic in Sanamxai, Sanamxai district, Attapeu province, Lao PDR. where Nana was diagnosed with moderate acute malnutrition.
Nutrition is a lifelong issue. The effects of poor nutrition begin in the womb, continue well into adulthood, and cycle across generations. While malnutrition can trap generations of children in a cycle of poverty, good nutrition, particularly in infancy, is the building block for future health and development.
©Bart Verweij/Unicef
A woman feeds her daughter nutritious food during a health outreach session supported by Unicef.
UNICEF promotes micronutrient powder (MNP) as a way for mothers and caregivers to improve children’s vitamin and mineral intake at home and avoid micronutrient deficiencies.
Phorsen village, Taoy district Saravan province, Lao PDR.
©Bart Verweij/Unicef
Children wash their hands and now about the importance of proper hygiene, in Doub primary school in Ta Oi District in Saravane Province, Lao PDR.
UNICEF supports a water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programme in this area.
©Bart Verweij/Unicef
Washing hands with soap before your lunch break. Pupils are taught about the importance of hygiene.
©Bart Verweij/World Bank
Photo taken on assignment for The World Bank.
©Bart Verweij/World Bank
Learning to write is fun! I met this teacher and pupil during an assignment on education I did for the World Bank.
©Bart Verweij/World Bank
Education for all! Photo taken on assignment for Unicef
©Bart Verweij/Unicef
This boy was reading a during a lunch break. I really like the way the light is reflected from the book onto his face.
©Bart Verweij/World Bank
Photograph taken on assignment for Unicef.
Lao PDR.
©Bart Verweij/Unicef
Photo taken on assignment for The World Bank.
©Bart Verweij/World Bank
Launch of a vaccination program.
Lao PDR.
©Bart Verweij/Unicef
Teacher and her child during a lunch break.
Photo taken on an assignment for Unicef.
©Bart Verweij/Unicef
These children were happy to show me the benefits of a water pump.
©Bart Verweij/World Bank
Photo taken on assignment for The World Bank
Laos
©Bart Verweij
Harvesting sugarcane Kampot, Cambodia.
Photo taken on assignment for Swisscontact.
©Bart Verweij/Swisscontact
Don Khone, Four Thousand Islands,
Lao PDR.
Photo taken on assignment for Swisscontact.
©Bart Verweij/Swisscontact
Children testing the quality of their drinking water.
Photo taken on assignment for the WASH project of SNV, The Netherlands Development Organization.
©Bart Verweij/SNV
Children on their way home from school for lunch.
©Bart Verweij/AusAid
Nurse on her way with vaccinations to a remote village in rural Laos.
Photo taken on assignment for Unicef.
©Bart Verweij/Unicef
Mother and child during a meeting with staff members of Care.
©Bart Verweij/Care International
This photo is going to be used by Swisscontact to promote tourism to Southern Laos.
Please have a look at the tourism destination website Swisscontact produced for the Southern Laos tourism destination: southern-laos.com
©Bart Verweij/Swisscontact
This photo is going to be used by Swisscontact to promote tourism to Southern Laos.
Please have a look at the tourism destination website Swisscontact produced for the Southern Laos tourism destination: southern-laos.com
©Bart Verweij/Swisscontact
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop is greeted by students at Hom Neua Primary School.
©DFAT/Bart Verweij
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop meets HE Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Myanmar, during the 2016 ASEAN Ministerial Meetings in Vientiane, Laos. 25 July 2016.
©DFAT/Bart Verweij
A group of surgeons from the Netherlands who operate as many patients as they can while training Vietnamese and Lao surgeons and dentists.
©Bart Verweij
A group of surgeons from the Netherlands who operate as many patients as they can while training Vietnamese and Lao surgeons and dentists.
©Bart Verweij