Three children stand near a bamboo pole while a woman sits with a child and a young man sits on a ladder by a house in Laos.

Bamboo Houses and the People at Their Doors in Laos

ByLori Locklear

Pastor Khen provided these photos of bamboo houses in Laos and the people around them. Several of the homes are raised off the ground, with wooden ladders up to the doors.

Men, women and children sit and stand around the houses, on the ladders and in the doorways.

There is work going on, too. Three women are at a log mortar, one of them pounding with a long wooden pestle. A man on a wooden platform holds a woven basket.

A shirtless man standing on a wooden platform beside a bamboo house, holding a woven basket, with red buckets nearby in Laos.
A raised bamboo house with a corrugated metal roof and a wooden ladder, with sandals on the ground in front in Laos.
Three children stand near a bamboo pole while a woman sits with a child and a young man sits on a ladder by a house in Laos.
A woman pounding with a long wooden pestle in a log mortar while another woman stands beside her and a seated woman holds the mortar in Laos.
An older man sitting on a wooden ladder at the open doorway of a bamboo house with clothes hanging nearby in Laos.
The side of a raised house with woven bamboo walls and a thatched roof, with clothes hanging beneath it in Laos.
A woman in a green jersey and red patterned skirt standing in the doorway of a bamboo house in Laos.
A barefoot woman in a light top and green patterned skirt standing at the entrance of a bamboo house above a wooden ladder in Laos.

Traveling Apostles for Christ is a 501(c)(3) mission serving Laos. No salaried employees. No paid directors. Donations go to the field.

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