This afternoon we spent an hour or so in a narrow, dusty, hot, cramped stationery and book store in Siem Reap – we were happy to find that many childrens’ books and educational puzzles were available, so we bought quite…
Author: Martin
A friend fo all seasons
K…… is a 17 years old lad we have known for several years and we have seen him grow from a small boy to a youth. Amongst the poorest of the poor, his dwelling is a hut on borrowed…
STAYING ALIVE!
Last visit was a precursor to a time of famine and the valuable efforts to ship rice to 65 starving families. Needless to say, Margaret and I have been especially anxious for our dear Khvein villagers to see how…
MAJOR EVENTS #1
Today (Wednesday) was an exciting day in the life of Khvein school – each child at school was given their supplies for the year: a made-to-measure school uniform, a pack of exercise books, pens, pencils, colouring pencils, pencil sharpener, eraser…
WE MADE IT!
……and so did all 6 bags of school materails! It took 21 hours and we were so exhausted to finally arrive in our hotel, but we’re all safe and sound along with the bags for the school. All of our…
Thanks to Singapore Airlines!
We always travel Singapore Airlines to the school and are very appreciative of their past support. This year their attention to us has been outstanding – just now we received word that we could carry even more equipment to the…
ANZ Bank giving support!
We are grateful for the interest of so many in giving their support in so many ways to the endeavours. Today we learned that the ANZ Bank will be supplying bags of jelly beans and lollipops for the children who…
Plans for 2006
Firstly may we thank you for your support of the “Rice for Life!” appeal last year. Over several months, with your help, we were able to supply rice to 65 of the neediest families plus 5 teachers’ families in a…
Khvien village update
Plans are now well advanced for our time in the village school for the commencement of the new School Year. We arrive there on Sunday, October 1st. Over the past months children have been measured for their new school…
Everything’s packed and ready!
100 kg of pens, pencils, erasers etc for the class rooms of Khvein Primary School have been packed ready for delivery next Monday morning.