Contribution to Lao PDR & Local Economy

HHPC represents a significant contributor to national and local economy

  • Major foreign investment in an infrastructure project
  • Significant operations & maintenance local spendings
  • Important source of royalties and taxes paid to the national and provincial governments
  • Significant employment opportunities:
  • - During construction

    - 325 jobs for Lao citizens, most of them taken by local people (Ban Nam Han    village & immediate surroundings)

    - Permanent jobs during operation:

    - 84 jobs for Lao citizens, most of them taken by local people (Ban Nam Han village    & immediate surroundings)
   Social/Environmental Activities during the years 2006 ~ 2007

As part of our continuous social and environmental commitment to our neighbors and local community, HHPC dedicated various facilities to the people of Ban Houay Kong resettlement village between January 2006 and March 2007, such as:

         
  - Renovation of access road stretching
    approximately 5 km.

- One (1) new school building having
    3 class-rooms complete with furniture.

- Renovation of two (2) existing school
    buildings complete with new furniture and
    a library, and with new wire perimeter
    fence to prevent animal access to school
    facilities.

 
 



   - Modernizing the clinic:

     a. We installed a solar power system at the          clinic to provide an access to electricity          for cold storage of vaccines and the other          delicate medicines.
     b. Various medical equipment including          powerful microscope, surgical sets & etc.
     c. We are providing medical consumables          and medicine every month.
     d. With a continuous water quality          monitoring.
         
 
- Sports facilities:

    We built play ground, valley ball and      badminton courts in the school.

- Large scale maintenance of water supply     systems and new fish ponds.

- A communal tractor, sets of hand tools
    and etc.

 


Mordernizing the clinic Solar electric power system end with the set of new medical equipment.
 


Awarding scholarships for outstanding students in the village
         

   Social/Environmental Activities during the year 2008

 



- Our commitment to social/environmental involvement continued in 2008 which
includes dedicating one additional new school building to take care of increasing number of young students in resettlement village, continued awards of scholarship...

 

 

- We have also cooperated with local villages (Ban Sok, Khoumkham) near the Power Plant to encourage learning enthusiasm of local students, and to improve local clinic including building electrification, providing basic surgical tools and furnitures…

 

   
 
   Social/Environmental Activities during the year 2009

 


Donation to the victims of tropical storm

- CEO of Houay Ho Power Co., Ltd., Mr. Yoong Park (4th right) and Mr. Heikki Pudas, EVP- Project Development & Business of Glow Group (center) hand over sticky rice and condiments worth US$ 11,000 (93.5 Million Kip) to Mr. Khenthong Sisuvong (second right), Vice Governor of Attapeu Province and Mr. Vathsady Khoumphetsavong, Chief of Cabinet of Attapeu Province on Dec.8, 2009. The donation was distributed to the victims of tropical storm Ketsana in the surrounding villages of Houay Ho power plant and in Attapeu Province.

 

 


 
 
     
         

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