Vangviang : along riverbank

Photographer

Halpern, Joel M. (Joel Martin), 1929-

Date

• 1969

Summary

• These woman are carrying buckets of water from the Nam Song home for residential use. This can be contrasted with the storage system for water on the structure at right connected to a water system. Then the only funds invested were for military bases and hospitals such as those run, with U.S. assistance, by Operation Brotherhood of the Philippines. At that time tourism for these remote places was not even thought to be a possibility.