Historical information

Purchased from a Dr. Toole, working in a Laotian refugee camp Ban-nam-yao in the north east of Thailand near Chiang Mae. Under his direction he is encouraging the refugees to make these panels for selling.
Dr. Michael Toole, an eminent Australian epidemiologist and public health expert, (from the Burnet Institute in Melbourne) has dedicated his career to international public health, disaster response, and communicable disease control.
• Refugee Camp Work: He extensively worked with and published research on displaced populations, war, and nutritional deficiencies in refugee camps—specifically during the Indochinese refugee crises of the late 1970s and 1980s, where hundreds of thousands of Laotians fled to camps in Thailand.
• Laos Projects: He later collaborated on public health capacity-building and health initiatives directly inside Laos.

Physical description

appliqué in many colours with the addition of a series of borders of varying widths with a small amount of surface stitchery.