UPDATE:
Thanks to the generosity of a group of people from the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston area, funding for a borewell at Prey Santeas is now assured – huge thanks to all those in Gorleston & Yarmouth for making this possible.
LATEST NEWS: the well has been completed and is in use!!! Wonderful news.
Prey Santeas is another very remote community in Pailin province, near the border with Thailand. So remote, that when we visited in January 2017 and asked why the name was only written in Khmer [normally it’s also written in English], we were told ” because no English speakers ever come here”and when you experience the roads here, you can see why!. There is an electricity connection fairly close by but no clean water here at all so filthy pond water is the only option.
The primary school at Prey Santeas doubles as a learning centre for older children and a base for a rice feeding programme run by the Daughters of Charity from Pailin. They come 3 times a week, bringing the water for the rice soup from one of four wells in the area which have already been funded by Support Cambodia. There is no real shelter here either so in the wet season, cooking and serving have to be done in the open, which makes things very difficult.