Floods in several provinces inundated about 75,000 hectares of agricultural land in August 2008, of which 43,661 hectares of crops were damaged. The worse floods since 1966 have inflicted damage worth hundreds of billions of kip, destroying farmlands, irrigation systems, roads, schools and houses, according to official reports. About 140 schools in 22 districts were affected and will cost about 3.2 billion kip to renovate. Damage caused to animal husbandry and fisheries will cost about 5 billion kip to repair. Many roads were also affected and it is estimated it will cost about 293 billion kip to repair them.

Simmano village was one of the most affected areas and unfortunately much damage was done to the library building which we built in 2006, where most computers were destroyed. Also severely damaged were the classrooms which we repaired and repainted in 2007.

The Foundation provided medicine to every household of the village as soon as the water receded.

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Simmano Flood Delivery of medicine (L) and School Flooding (R)

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Simmano School Flooding (L) and Vientiane flooding of 2008 (R)