Today was our annual excursion to the Silk Farm and the Cultural Centre and this year we hired 3 buses to take 130 children, four teachers, Phath, M & M. You can see photo highlights in the Photo Album…
WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE BUT NOT A DROP TO (SAFELY) DRINK!
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…
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…