An Akha hills tribe girl holds on to her mother's hands during a ceremony in the Phongsali province .....
An Akha hills tribe girl holds on to her mother's hands during a ceremony in the Phongsali province of Laos February 15, 2006. [Laos, the world's third largest heroin producer only ten years ago, declared itself free of opium poppies on Tuesday, after a six year campaign against the raw material use to make the narcotic.]