The Vietnam-Laos youth friendship village project, worth 2 million USD, has been inaugurated in the Lao capital city of Vientiane.

The village, funded by the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee, covers an area of 1,000 hectares along the Vietnam-Laos border line in Phon Lom village, Khamkeut district, in the Lao central province of Borikhamxay .

Since beginning in 2008, the project has helped 70-80 poor young households stablise their lives on a 50 hectare site./.