We are Daauw Team

We all live in the Kajsiab Shelter and help each other to empower the mountain people and each other and work with new ways to earn an income and new skill to remain self-sustainable in the mountains.

These are Oma and Opa Ban Tup. They are medicine man and woman and live at the Organic Farm. They help the Kajsiab Team whenever somebody is ill and give traditional herbs to heal.

This is Bounchan. Bounchan and Zjong make sure everything runs well at Kajsiab Shelter and Daauw Home. Bounchan teaches the people to work together so everybody can help each other.


This is Zjong. Zjong is the caretaker of all the children at Kajsiab Shelter and she is the mother of all of them. Zjong knows what they need and gives them love and care. Zjong also makes sure everything runs well at the shelter and teaches the woman to empower theirselves.

This is Mia Au. Mia Au lives at Kajsiab since she married Au. They chose to live here so they can slowly try to build up a self sustainable life without getting stuck in the poverty cycle with drugs and lack of food and income. Now Mia Au is running the Kajsiab shop so she learns how to build up an income

This is Jaa. Jaa has been at the Kajsiab Shelter for many years because he had no parents who could help him to build up his life. He married a few years after his arrival Mia Jaa and now they have 2 children, Luna and Sky. Jaa and Mia Jaa are learning to become self sustainable. They want to open their own restaurant in the future

This is Mia Jaa. Mia Jaa is the wife of Jaa and last year she finished her cooking class training. She now teaches the other women at the Shelter how to cook and wants to open her own restaurant. Mia Jaa is now giving back what she learned at Kajsiab and she shares her knowledge and skills

Baauw is living since last year with her husband Houa at Daauw Organic Farm. Baauw really likes to work with travelers and is good at English. Soon she will be working with cultural exchange activities. Baauw and Houa have a son, Henry

Houa is married to Baauw and living at Kajsiab since about one year. He is very excited to start a life with Baauw and help Baauw in her activities at Daauw Farm

Waa is now 25 years old and arrived about 7 years ago at Project Kajsiab Laos. He graduated from college and just got married. Waa loves to teach children and will in the future do a lot of teaching and coaching at Kajsiab.  

Waa is now 25 years old and arrived about 7 years ago at Project Kajsiab Laos. He graduated from college and just got married. Waa loves to teach children and will in the future do a lot of teaching and coaching at Kajsiab.  

Ning has had an extremely hard time before arriving at Kajsiab. She lods two husbands due to drugs and it was impossible to care for her 4 children. Now after a few years at the shelter she is doing very well and learned to empower herself. Now Ning gives back at the shelter and the rest of the time she is running her own shop in products.

This is Leej.
Leej is an orphan and has been living at Kajsiab Shelter since 4 years. He is helping to build the website from the project and learning how to do webdesign. He also goes to school during the day.

THis is Au
Au has lived in many small villages until he came here at Kajsiab.
Au is married and has two sons. He helps the project during the day with building and renovation. He also drives the tuk tuk and helps out in the Organic Farm
He likes to raise chickens.