Some welcome news: R________ is a teenage girl from the village who is now attending High School. Despite coming from very poor circumstances, she has a great confidence and supports herself and her extended family by making bracelets and selling…
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Robbie safely arrived in Siem Reap!
Just arrived after a long journey, exhausted but glad to be back in S.R. Providing resources for the English language teachers will be a priority this trip.
Latest news from Khvien
Local facilitator for Rice4Life!, Phath reports today: I did called to Mr. Hon asking about S……….. and her sister they go to school very day and Mr Hon also send the rice to them very month and will be sending…
Robbie to return to Khvien!
Robbie plans to begin his next visit on December 27th. On his last visit the English classes at the school were commenced and he looks forward to reveiwing progress. The big problem of how to get children to high school…
Students go back to school after Water Festival holiday
From Siem Reap, Veasna reports: Students began returning to school last week after the Water Festival had finished. They rest one week for holiday in the festival.
The Prize-giving
Today, our final full day at Khvein school, was the Prize-Giving at the school. This morning Margaret presented book prizes to top students from years 5 and 6. We started with year 6 and School Director Mr Hon, read…
A “Banquet” for the teachers and helpers
A happy event today! Our tuk tuk man (we call him “Number 9” after his registration number 0209) was waiting and took us into the town centre to the eatery known as “BBQ” – simple, eh? There we treated all the…
The annual school excursion to Angkor National Museum and the Silk Farm
We’re exhausted!! Hot and happy. We really are flagging- it’s the heat and humidity that saps the energy from us, also the massive amount of stuff we’re doing. Continually ‘negotiating’ in getting things done tires us too. I…
“Let there be light!” Solar electricity installed at the school
Today has been another exciting one! We have been suffering with the ‘Delhi belly’ – a casually drunk iced tea at a shop we think was the donor of our stomach bug – but nothing took away from the thrills…
Special school assembly for new school year 2008-2009
What a happy day today! School opened for the new school year with a special school assembly in the schoolyard made weatherproof for the monsoon season last year when we laid road-base. The school population was assembled according to grade…