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  Improving healthcare for mothers and babies in Laos with mobile phone technology

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  MMG supports UXO clearance in Lao PDR

  Lao PDR (Laos) is one of the most heavily bombed countries per capita, with over two million tonnes of explosive ordinances dropped on Laos between 1964 and 1973.   It is estimated that up to 30% failed to detonate at the time. Cluster sub-munitions or...

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  1000 Day Project update – Expanding our reach

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  Supporting Agriculture

  Globally, the majority of the world’s poor share a common profession – farming. Of the approximately 1.2 billion people living on less than $1.25 per day, 75 percent of them work in agriculture on small holdings of land. Strong, direct relationships exist between agricultural productivity,...

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  The 1000 Day Project – fighting zinc deficiency in Lao PDR

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  Creating new community spaces and village offices for Vilabouly

  Fifteen villages in the Vilabouly district of Laos have used money allocated by the LXML Sepon community-led projects fund to build permanent village offices or community centres helping bring the community together.   Community members of two of the villages, Nahoy and Namkeun, decided to...

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  Managing tailings at Sepon

  Copper processing involves the production of metal - either in pure form or concentrates - as well as waste rock and process materials (tailings) which are sent to above-ground storage facilities. MMG LXML's Sepon mine uses a pipeline network to transfer water and mine tailings to a nearby storage...

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  3,000 years of cultural heritage and Lao history

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  Who let the crocs out?

  In 2013 the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) estimated there were less than 250 Siamese crocodiles in the wild in Lao PDR, due to over-hunting and habitat loss. Thanks to support from MMG LXML Sepon, the future of the critically-endangered Siamese crocodile is looking much brighter....

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  Taking safety home

  In mid-2016 MMG LXML Sepon mine in Lao PDR held its first ever Family Day for employees, contractors, families and local Vilabouly communities. The two-day event was designed to strengthen engagement with local community members and embed safety as a value beyond the mining environment....

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