Events - Lao Heritage Foundation

LHF hosts various events throughout the years. Look back and find out what we have been up to since we started in 2004. Find out when the first summer camps was launched. Find out when the summer camps in your area started. Did you know that LHF named each of it’s gala and featured various Lao arts at each and every annual gala event? Learn more about what areas of Lao art were featured. We invite you to explore our past, connect with our present, and help us build the future of Lao arts in the next generation of Lao youths across America!!

LHF 20th Anniversary Celebration!! (September 28, 2024)

You are cordially invited to join LHF as we celebrate our 20th Anniversary.

Date: September 28, 2024

Time: 6PM- 11PM

Location: Oswald Durant Art Center, 1605 Cameron Ave, Alexandria, VA 22314

Tickets: $40, Children 12 and under are free – Get your tickets here.

Vendors: $50 early bird before 9/22, $75 after 9/22- reserve a table here.

Theme: Our Stories

Join us for an evening celebrating Lao heritage with traditional cuisine, dance, and music performed by our talented LHF students. This year’s gala will highlight the immigration stories of our students’ families, gathered through interviews conducted as part of the Lao Art and Culture Summer Camp in Virginia.

We are excited to unveil our new Education Project, which began in October 2023. This initiative provides online English education to orphans in Laos, enhancing their employment prospects after graduation. Our program, which started in Luang Prabang, now includes over 60 high school and college students. The project is supported by a global network of 25 trained and vetted volunteers who teach English. Additionally, we offer scholarships to orphans pursuing higher education, with the first cohort consisting of seven students who receive $50 per month to assist with tuition and living expenses. Become a sponsor today!! Sponsor a student here.

Sponsorship Opportunities for Education Project

In our 20th anniversary, LHF is expanding our work towards education and scholarship. We launched an online English learning program with several orphanage schools (SOS Herman Gmeiner School of Luang Prabang, the Orphanage School of Luang Prabang, and other SOS branches from other provinces in Laos, including Xieng Khouang and Pakse). We have partnered with these institutions since August of 2023. As part of this program, we are also providing students with scholarships to help with their tuition and living expenses as they pursue education at the college level or at a trade school. We hope that the scholarship and the English classes will provide these students with a better opportunity in finding work and a career after graduation.

Each student in the program will receive a monthly scholarship of $50 for increments of twelve months in a year; recipients are selected once yearly. Priority will be given to current recipients who are eligible.

As part of this program, students are eligible for a scholarship if they are an orphan, pursue higher education (college or technical school) and are taking our English classes through LHF at least four times per month.

Classes are taught by LHF volunteers across the US. Each teacher is trained and completes an onboarding process prior to teaching. LHF matches students to volunteers based on the skill level of both the student and volunteer. LHF sets up all of the classes and monitors student growth and progress through teacher logs after each lesson.

LHF would like to invite you to sponsor a student or a group of students. All donations are tax deductible. Please see the full sponsorship packet.

We are seeking sponsorships in the following areas:

1 student for 1 month ($50)
1 student for 6 months ($300)
1 student for 1 year ($600)
1 student for 2 years (1200)
1 student for 4 years ($2400)
Internet access for English classes for 1 year for all of the sites ($500)

Please click the link below to become a sponsor today: SPONSOR A STUDENT

LHF Summer Camps

LHF is excited to announce the summer camp dates and sites for this summer below:

Luang Prabang, Laos (June 24 to July 4)

Attapu, Laos (July 8-July 18)

Midwest Camp: Minneapolis, MD (July 13-20)

Fresno, CA (July 13-20)

Philadelphia, PA (July 21-27)

Alexandria, VA (July 27-August 3)

Mercede, CA (August 4-10)

Fiesta Asia: Celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month (June 1, 2024)

LHF students participated in the Fiesta Asia in Washington DC to celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month. They performed alongside many other performers representing many countries of Asia.

Lao New Year: Lao Embassy (April 20, 2024)

LHF students performed at the Lao Embassy in Washington D.C. to celebrate Lao New Year.

Lao New Year: Wat Pa Buddharam (April 20, 2024)

LHF students performed at Wat Pa Buddharam for Lao New Year. The students also participated in the pageant and religious ceremonies of alms giving and the parade. After the performance, they had a blast soaking each other with water.