08/30/2025
On gala night, 80 hearts gathered in unity — friends, family, and community bound by love, culture, and vision. Our auction basket table stood abundant because of you, our cherished donors, who filled them with baskets brimming with generosity and care.
🌿 With Deepest Gratitude, We Honor Each of You:
✨ Atomy Skincare with Tae — for bringing light and beauty that uplifted our table, a gentle radiance shared with care.
✨ California Candle Co. — for filling our space with warmth and glow, reminding us that even the smallest flame can guide us home.
✨ Heela Saleem — for your offering of grace and kindness, each detail stitched with care, each gesture carrying love.
✨ Houng Tong — for offering soulful baskets, each filled with warmth and beauty, gifts rooted in love, community, and care.
✨ Lao Lodge — for gifting a two-night stay in the Truckee Alpines, a Lao home away from home, carrying our heritage in culture, connection, and gathering.
✨ Living Out Lao’d — for gifting Lao food experiences that nourish body and soul, keeping our flavors alive in pride, joy, and celebration.
✨ Padaq Mae Kesone — for blessing us with the lifeblood of our cuisine, a taste of home that carried memory, heritage, and love to the table.
✨ Saysamone Block — for offering treasured gifts, each infused with value and compassion, each one a blessing flowing from your heart.
✨ Sophorn Kem — for your heartfelt gifts of a handcrafted Southeast Asian woodwork piece and a Lao Supply skateboard deck — blessings of artistry, resilience, and love carried forward by our community.
✨ Your offerings were never just items in baskets — they were prayers wrapped in care, blessings woven with intention, and threads of possibility for the next generation. Because of your kindness, our auction raised $9,230, with every dollar flowing directly into scholarships for Lao and Lao-American students.
These scholarships are more than financial aid — they are lifelines, seeds of dignity and survival, sparks of hope that will burn brightly in the hearts of our children
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💫 And Still, More Dreams Await 💫
This year’s success is just the beginning. Our mission continues, and countless more students are waiting for their chance to rise. That’s where you come in.
Do you have Lao silk once treasured, or new pieces resting quietly in storage? A designer handbag once admired, or still with its tag untouched? Perhaps an unforgettable experience, or even a fresh idea for next year’s auction? Place it into our circle of love. Every offering — whether modest or magnificent — becomes more than a donation. It becomes a bridge from despair to destiny, a spark that lights tomorrow’s path.
🌿 Special Thanks 🌿
Our deepest gratitude to Huong Tong, auction basket volunteer coordinator, for your leadership and creativity in elevating this effort. And to the volunteers who handled logistics, captured photos, managed the online auction, and facilitated transactions — your dedication was the backbone of our success.
With hearts overflowing in gratitude,
The Jai Lao Foundation
✨ Every gift matters. Every gesture is a blessing. Every act of generosity becomes tomorrow’s light. ✨
🌐 Learn more or donate today: JaiLao.org
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