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Women and children stay warm by a fire and process reeds used to manufacture brooms in Ban Had Dan, Laos. The clusters, wrapped with bamboo and made into brooms, are sold to neighboring Vietnam and fetch 3,000 kip ($0.37) - a cottage industry in this village. The village would only be partially inundated by proposed Dam #3 (whose construction has not yet commenced).

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Image Size: 5616x3744 / 11.3MB; www.weltyphotography.com; Asia Southeast Asia Laos Phongsaly Province color image horizontal outdoors Ban Had Dan evening dusk twilight village work manual laborer plant grass broom craft five people street scene young adult mid adult girl woman man bamboo child warmth fire idyllic building
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Women and children stay warm by a fire and process reeds used to manufacture brooms in Ban Had Dan, Laos. The clusters, wrapped with bamboo and made into brooms, are sold to neighboring Vietnam and fetch 3,000 kip ($0.37) - a cottage industry in this village. The village would only be partially inundated by proposed Dam #3 (whose construction has not yet commenced).