{"id":48256,"date":"2020-03-19T13:41:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T19:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isobaresoffit.com\/?p=48256"},"modified":"2020-03-19T13:41:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T19:41:17","slug":"the-cope-visitor-center-in-vientiane-laos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isobaresoffit.com\/2020\/03\/19\/the-cope-visitor-center-in-vientiane-laos\/","title":{"rendered":"The COPE Visitor Center in Vientiane, Laos"},"content":{"rendered":"
During our trip to Vientiane we visited the COPE Visitor Center, which is partly a museum, but also provides insight into the work that COPE does in Laos. Visiting the center wasn’t on our original itinerary, but we ended up with enough time during our tour of the city to fit it in. The country of Laos has many unexploded cluster bombs (referred to as bombies) from the Vietnam war that are still causing injuries throughout the country. COPE is an organization that is attempting to find and defuse all of the bombs as well as provide medical attention and supplies to those that get injured.<\/p>\n