User:NatureBag

NatureBag is the name commonly used to describe a poverty reduction mission to help the Khmu, the indigenous people of northern Laos. The poverty reduction mission is organized and managed by Mr. Bounsou Keoamphone, son of a poor farmer, now a university student in Luang Prabang, Laos, who is studying to be a teacher of minority children in remote Lao villages.

Mr. Keoamphone and an American retiree are the principal economic sponsors of the project. Their efforts are augmented by volunteers; some third-world contributors to the mission are paid small salaries as partial compensation for their efforts. "NatureBag" is a name being used to market the primary product of the the mission, a sustainable homemade carrying device made from tropical kudzu that has been used and refined for thousands of years on the steep mountainsides of northern Laos.

Although there is a COI in contributing its recent addition to the subject "Kudzu" because both Keoamphone and the American are dedicated to making the NatureBag project successful and both hope to see the eventual return to them of the capital they have provided to "seed" the project, the addition to the Kudzu article was written carefully so that it expresses no opinions other than those sourced in the primary reference, a website that is being used to promote the project. That reference documents its information and conclusions by including two videos with the substantiation.

Furthermore, there is no one else available to improve the Kudzu article by adding this important and historical use of the article's subject to the information provided. Thus there is a valid basis for accepting this COI.