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title: Home Economics poster, No. 350 (Lao, Vientiane)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/home-economics-lao-1965/
description: A Lao-language instructional sheet titled 'For health and sanitation'. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
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# Home Economics poster, No. 350 (Lao, Vientiane)

A Lao-language instructional sheet titled 'For health and sanitation'. Line drawings in a red-ruled grid show boiling and filtering drinking water, keeping a bedroom with a mosquito net clean, a simple wood stove with a chimney, a method for washing clothes, and red crosses marking hazards to small children at home. The tell is plain-folks: Lao housewives are shown doing the recommended chores, with no sponsor named.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

Original (Lao) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
ເພື່ອສຸຂພາບ ແລະ ອະນາໄມ

ເຮັດຄວາມສະອາດຫ້ອງນອນ

ວິທີຊັກເຄື່ອງແບບງ່າຍໆ

[numbered step captions, ingredient lists and hazard captions in small Lao type, illegible at this resolution]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
For health and sanitation.

Clean the bedroom.

Simple way to wash clothes.

[small captions not transcribed]
```

Only the headings are legible; the many small captions are omitted.

[← Health Means Happiness poster, No. 349 (Thai, Bangkok)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/health-means-happiness-thai-1965/) [A New Quest for Union poster, Free World supplement (English, Manila) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/a-new-quest-for-union-free-world-supplement-manila-english-1965/)

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