Awards
Sombath SOMPHONE receiving the Ramon Magsaysay award
International awards
2005
Sombath Somphone was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership. The citation for his award “recognizes his hopeful efforts to promote sustainable development in Laos by training and motivating its young people to become a generation of leaders“. The Ramon Magsaysay Award is often regarded Asia’s Nobel Prize. Sombath Somphone remains the only person from the Lao PDR to receive this award.
PADETC Receiving the UN ESCAP Award in 2001
2001
Participatory Development Training Center (PADETC) was awarded the 2001 ESCAP Human Resources Development Award – “Empowering the Rural Poor through HRD” by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP).
Lao awards
PADETC has also been awarded several awards and certificates of recognition from the different agencies within the Lao Government (see below). For more Lao awards visit the PADETC facebook page.
Achievement for Monk development
Achievement for young volunteer activity from youth union of Lao PDR
Achievement for Recycling activities from Vientiane capital government
Achievement for youth and education development from Ministry of education
For more Lao awards visit the PADETC facebook page.
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