Luang Prabang

Laos gets more foreign aid than you can possibly imagine. Most of it stays in the capital and is spent on enormous government buildings and, most likely, the government workers that fill them. The actual work is done by privately funded NGOs. The "government" orphanage in Luang Prabang receives about 10 cents per day per child, for food, housing, clothing and education. This is supplemented by private donations. They make every penny stretch in a way that I have never before seen. Show above is the orphanage garden, a major source of food for the kids and surely worked by the students themselves, when they are not in class.