REI - Building People to Build Nations

COUNTRY NAME	Laos People’s Democratic Republic
LOCATION	Southeast Asia
POPULATION	6,521,998 (July 2007 est.)
CAPITAL	Vientiane
GOVERNMENT	Communist State
COUNTRY SIZE	236,800 sq. km. (slightly larger than Utah)
POP. GROWTH	2.37% (2007 est.)
LIFE EXPECTANCY	55.89 years
LITERACY RATE	68.7% age 15 and over
PER CAPITA GDP	$1,900 (2007 est.)
CURRENCY	kip (LAK)
ETHNIC GROUPS	Lao Loum (lowland) 68%; Lao Thoung (upland) 22%; Lao Soung including the Hmong and the Yao 9%; Vietnamese/Chinese 1%
RELIGIONS	Buddhist 65%; animist 32.9%; Christian 1.3%; other and unspecified .8% (1995 census)
LANGUAGES	Lao (official); French; English, and various ethnic languages

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REI Projects in Laos

Resource Exchange International (REI) has been invited by the Lao Ministry of Health and the Director of Mittaphab (Friendship) Hospital to aid the Lao in upgrading the health care of their people. What a privilege! These officials understand our REI commitment to invest in people more than buildings—to improve the human capacity of the hospital.

REI personnel have made trips to Vientiane since 2005 and; a Memorandum of Understanding has been signed.