THREE MAJOR NEW PROJECTS COMPLETED. LATEST NEWS!!!
BOREWELL AT REACH DON KAO [pronounced Ree-Don-Kow]
COMPLETED MAY 2019.
This short video clip shows how happy the villagers are with their new well!
This will be Support Cambodia‘s 9th borewell and will bring clean water to this very poor farming community of over 100 families. Presently, their only water supply is the river, shared with the animals.
A meeting with representatives of the village during our trip underlined how keen they are to improve their health, especially that of their children. The girl in the picture is Vary Nivaa who comes from the village and has been instrumental in bringing the project to the attention of [Marist] Brother Francis who will oversee the work. Huge thanks to the anonymous donors who have very generously offered to pay for the well.
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Reach Don Kao -
Site of the Borewell -
Current water supply -
vegetable farming -
Reach Don Kao villagers -
Vary Nivaa
NEW INTERNAL WALLS AT PONGRO DAY CARE CENTRE COMPLETED APRIL 2019
Support Cambodia helped build the Pongro Day Care Centre in 2014 and have contributed to it’s maintenance ever since, most recently by funding a new roof and no lining the internal walls and ceiling with wood panelling. This is not a cosmetic exercise but a necessity, to reduce the effect of the corrugated iron exterior walls which make the classroom excessively hot, thereby limiting it’s use.
The Centre provides day care/basic education and rice soup for under 5’s in the morning and activities and extra classes for older children in the afternoon. It’s a lifeline for the children of Pongro Village, many of whom have no settled home and little parental guidance.
Sister Dulce Amor , who started and still runs the Centre, is enormously grateful to the private donor from Norfolk who has paid for the improvement to the walls.
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wood panelled walls -
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activity: bracelet making -
Pongro Day Care Centre -
Sister Dulce Amor -
rice soup at Pongro
ROHAL PRIMARY SCHOOL HAND WASH PROJECT COMPLETED JUNE 2019
The video clip shows some very happy children enjoying their new facility under the watchful eye of head teacher Mr Bun Sarak. Wonderful to see a project from the planning stage in January to completion in June. Huge thanks to Bun Sarak,Fr Greg and our good friend Nhor Chamrom for seeing it through.
Rohal is a large village of around 400 families, 20 miles from Svay Sisophon and close to the Thai border. In 2017 Support Cambodia financed the setting up of a Microfinance Scheme here. It is going very well.
The village Primary School has 267 pupils in Grades 1 – 6: they have a borewell and toilets but nowhere for children to wash their hands. Head Teacher Bun Sarak and his staff are very keen to introduce the hand wash facility to reinforce the Health & Hygiene Programme already underway. The School will contribute to the cost of the project and Fr Greg Priyadi [Parish Priest of Svay] will ensure the project is completed.
Grateful thanks to everyone who attended the SOUPS, SLIDES & CRAFTS event on 16th March which raised a wonderful £807.10 to pay for the project.
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Rohal Primary School -
Head Teacher Bun Sarak -
Rohal borewell -
the hand wash will be here. -
Rohal pupils -
Typical village building
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Cambodian craft stall -
Enjoying the soup -
Fr Greg Priyadi