tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45430452074007743132024-02-21T09:29:12.348+08:00Cambodia Build a School ProjectAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619919607547073480noreply@blogger.comBlogger180125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4543045207400774313.post-78921417637041580532018-03-04T13:24:00.004+08:002018-03-04T13:28:06.414+08:00New primary school needed for Romlong
Behind Romlong market, Baray district.
I would appreciate any help in raising $$$ to give these kids a proper school. Plan is for about US$27,000 for a 3 classroom brick building for primary school.
Please PM me if you can help in any way.
EJDLAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619919607547073480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4543045207400774313.post-85031201237905492562016-09-14T16:55:00.002+08:002016-09-14T17:13:16.858+08:00Sok San Village school openingSo pleased to have been able to open our latest (8th) school in Sok San village. I emphasized the need for the village to take ownership of the school and the necessity to look after the school.
Seated on my right are: Commune Head, Principal, Village Head, Village Dy Head.
We had a bit of hiccup earlier when the commune leader indicated that he might not be able to Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619919607547073480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4543045207400774313.post-55933022019216055312015-05-20T21:49:00.000+08:002015-05-21T12:12:23.969+08:00New school at SokSan village?
We had the opportunity to visit a remote village in Santuk district. Santuk is the district just north of Baray, and this village in an area called Kom Pup Om Bel, is about 10kms deeper than our last village school in Andaut.
In some ways the village is reminiscent of a previous village we visited, Tropeang Russei, in that it is kind of a re-settlement village with new families. The land Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619919607547073480noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4543045207400774313.post-77748480054072799332015-05-20T20:52:00.000+08:002015-05-20T20:52:41.750+08:00One session schoolsSince the late 1980s, the Ministry of Education is Singapore has been moving our education system towards one session schools. The target is that by 2016, all primary schools in Singapore will only be one sessions schools. I can imagine it is a logistically and operationally difficult exercise. That it has taken 30 years to get to this stages gives an idea of how difficult this journey can be.
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619919607547073480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4543045207400774313.post-30684273607520447932013-06-22T14:06:00.001+08:002013-07-29T13:45:25.942+08:00Testing out the D'light S20One of the high school students we are supporting, lives in a home without electricity. He does is homework at home with the aid of a small kerosene lamp. So I thought I would check out other sources of lighting he may be able to use. Without power, the only, and most obvious choice is the use of solar battery powered lamps. Online searches pointed out an apparent solution,the d'light S20. It Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619919607547073480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4543045207400774313.post-59026280019804892442012-11-05T20:14:00.001+08:002012-11-05T20:14:13.412+08:00Boeung Rial (Foating Village) update - a joy to behold!Bringing a school to the floating village, Boeung Rial had always been a challenge. When we finally constructed the floating school for the village we had to deal with the problem of getting teachers for the school. The journey there for any teacher, no matter how dedicated, was challenging. We eventually developed a funding mechanism to support the salary and transport allowances for two Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619919607547073480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4543045207400774313.post-51995634186743644102012-11-04T08:25:00.000+08:002012-11-04T08:25:12.252+08:00School@Chhom Trach - 7 years and going strong!
The very first school we built in 2005, was at a very poor village called Chhom Trach. Now, 7 years down the road, the school is going strong. A couple of years ago it was struggling through a rough patch with a rather amotivated teacher. We had to "incentivise" the government appointed teacher, and appoint one of our own (a retired Christian principal from another school). Now the school is Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619919607547073480noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4543045207400774313.post-13829407412057358542012-05-22T15:58:00.001+08:002012-05-22T15:58:24.566+08:00Floating school@Boeung Rial in need of repairs
How quickly time has passed. Once we had fretted about whether we could actually get the idea of the floating school (literally) off the ground. Now it's been almost two years since we floated the school at Boeung Rial. During the last big floods last year, the school had morphed temporarily into an ark for some of the struggling frightened families.
We visited Boeung Rial just to get a Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619919607547073480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4543045207400774313.post-53562991753286651162011-12-09T21:20:00.001+08:002011-12-09T21:24:36.598+08:00
So pleased that the folks have taken up the task of cleaning out the wells for the villages. Started on 28th November. Over 6 days they have cleaned a 100 wells....at a cost of US$7.50 per well.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619919607547073480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4543045207400774313.post-48115566002761645632011-11-05T14:53:00.000+08:002011-11-05T14:53:23.263+08:00Ark @ Boeung Rial
Floating in about 4ms of water. The vegetation at back is actually the tops of a copse of gum trees.
When we built the floating school at Boeung Rial, we never realized how God will eventually use the school.
The recent floods have pretty much driven the villages from there homes.The flood waters have risen the water levels so that there few areas left for the villagers to deploy theirAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619919607547073480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4543045207400774313.post-87849147913002542582011-11-05T09:44:00.002+08:002011-11-05T15:44:43.539+08:00Well rehabilitation after the floodsNow that the floods waters are beginning to recede, the important task is to start rehabilitating the open wells that have been over-run by the flood waters. This is critical as the contamination of the wells by human and animal faecal wastes have rendered them quite toxic for human use.
We are starting the slow process of well disinfection in the Baray vicinity as the wells become uncovered. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619919607547073480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4543045207400774313.post-5997284703377562392011-10-21T14:54:00.000+08:002011-10-21T15:06:31.158+08:00Water purification during the floodsThe flood situation in Cambodia is not getting better, and does not look like it is going to go away soon. Ironically in the midst of this water, people are desperately in need of good drinking water. Regular open wells have been over-run, heavily contaminated and are next to useless. Water purifier tablets are unavailable, and even if available are too expensive for regular use of the families Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619919607547073480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4543045207400774313.post-43209123416185763782011-04-22T12:32:00.006+08:002011-04-22T13:03:10.129+08:00Water quality in BarayIn the recent trip, we were able to take water samples for chemical and microbiological analyses from various locations at the places we frequented.These places were, from West to East:a] Boeung Rial: i) from a water container of their drinking water, obtained from the lake; ii) direct from the lake source itself; iii) from an open well.b] Phum Ley: i) tube-well at the school; ii) tube-well at Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619919607547073480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4543045207400774313.post-84712233803578535212011-04-09T15:39:00.004+08:002011-04-09T16:48:35.584+08:00You can't imagine where they drink from....The story of the widow of Zarephath and Elijah during the God-ordained drought reminded me of the water quality project we did during this last trip. We sampled sources of drinking water from more than 10 locations in various villages. I will report of the results later on when I have received them. What was a horrific eye opener was discovering where some of their unreported sources were. We Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619919607547073480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4543045207400774313.post-45926971843242535122011-04-08T08:10:00.008+08:002011-04-08T13:09:32.266+08:00A question of attitudes - lessons from a Lebanese widowA young Lebanese widow and her son was preparing for her last meal when she came across the strange man. The land had been gripped by a severe drought and famine. With no way to fend for herself and her son, the widow had rationed whatever food she had until all she had left was just a handful of flour and some oil. Hardly enough for even a small loaf of bread. Her starving body reduced to barelyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619919607547073480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4543045207400774313.post-56089933137605056542011-04-07T17:36:00.004+08:002011-04-07T17:56:46.068+08:00A question of attitudes?In the course of our work in Cambodia we have been through many communities. We try to evaluate the needs of the community, but more importantly, the quality of the village leadership as well as the commitment of the leadership and community to the educational mission in their own community. In simple words, we are interested to know if the community values education and will encourage the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619919607547073480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4543045207400774313.post-81688620771213055842011-04-05T09:13:00.005+08:002011-04-05T09:35:51.970+08:00Unnecessary?There were more than a few raised eyebrows when our bus driver showed up with his pistol, complete with holster, belt and bullets. This seemed really unnecessary nowadays. We had been accompanied during the last trip by weapon toting armed guards, but this had seemed more for display than anything else, since the District Officer was officiating.So we really don't know what to make of this Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619919607547073480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4543045207400774313.post-7854644626826652532011-04-04T14:48:00.007+08:002011-04-05T09:13:08.963+08:00Phum Ley - an updateWe entered Phum Ley in 2009, impressed by the relative orderliness and commitment of the village to the idea of a school. Two years later, we have not been disappointed. The school compound remains neat and clean, with newly constructed flower beds. The Beng tree we planted to commemorate the opening of the school didn't look too healthy though, but the school was healthy enough.We met up with Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619919607547073480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4543045207400774313.post-87217326361837640422011-04-01T21:37:00.004+08:002011-04-01T21:49:16.086+08:00School@Andaut - an updateAndaut is the village that is the farthest East we have gone to, and farthest from the Tonle Sap. It is pathetically dry, and with poor agricultural land. We managed to excavate an open well in the land where the church has been built, but, where the school is supposed to be built, we have had no success putting in a drill well. The drill has managed to go down about 20ms, but had to stop as Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619919607547073480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4543045207400774313.post-81047560730587083612011-03-31T23:00:00.007+08:002011-04-01T21:51:52.817+08:00School@Ta Peuv - an updateTa Peuv was the second village school we built. This was completed back in 2007. At that time we had confidence to just build 2 classroom schools. These classrooms are now bursting at the seams and the school conducts classes from Grade 1-4.Grade 4 students quietly at their work.We need now to build 2 more classrooms to absorb the students moving up to Grades 5-6. Can we do it?Please help us.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619919607547073480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4543045207400774313.post-57712474829618913062011-03-30T09:10:00.006+08:002011-03-30T09:46:48.212+08:00Kids at Peam On ChaanThere is an interesting tale to be told about the small village of Peam On Chaan. But that's a story for another day, if you would invite me out for coffee.... :)Meanwhile here is a video of the Sunday School kids at the village. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619919607547073480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4543045207400774313.post-42654406796373425012011-03-30T09:06:00.003+08:002011-03-30T09:09:24.987+08:00David and his new bagAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619919607547073480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4543045207400774313.post-11894802648638819892011-01-31T09:40:00.006+08:002011-01-31T10:08:40.814+08:00Hostel@Baray (Sanctuary)We've started work on the hostel (Sanctuary), and are hopeful it will be completed by March. By His grace we should be able to have a opening/blessing for it. The hostel should be able to support about 12 high school students from the villages. The students can self support to a limited extent and we are praying for a steady level of sponsorship for the 12 student-hostelites. We estimate that Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619919607547073480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4543045207400774313.post-16081820517187098172010-11-02T21:16:00.009+08:002010-11-02T21:43:51.403+08:00Follow up at the schools......By God's grace we have had 5 good years and completed 5 schools - Chhom Trach, Ta Peuv, O Ta Saeng, Phum Lieu and Phum Ley. Some villages have done better than others.We have followed up at Chhom Trach a lot more than the others because it is the poorest of the villages, and have been very heartened by the progress it has made. Recently the poly students repainted the exterior and it really made Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619919607547073480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4543045207400774313.post-36816438543891163272010-11-01T20:46:00.015+08:002010-11-02T21:51:19.753+08:00Images of Boeung RialEe Sin and Chi SengPiang Ngok doing his thingJimmyPenny and Chee KhiangMe and Ps KiaPs Boon Leong, Jhon and Chi SengPing and Swee Oon - How deep??District Officer, Ps Kia, Esther, Ps Boon Leong and me at backVeron, Wai Ling and ChewJhonPingAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17619919607547073480noreply@blogger.com1