{"id":129,"date":"2008-08-07T12:28:19","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T04:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/?p=129"},"modified":"2008-11-15T20:24:21","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T12:24:21","slug":"update-on-school-visit-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/news-updates\/update-on-school-visit-in-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on school visit in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\n<div>\n<div>With just under eight weeks to go, plans are well advanced for our annual visit to the school.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>We arrive in the village on an auspicious day for the Khmer, Pchum Benh Day (Ancestors Day) &#8211; Sunday, September 28.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>School opening day is on Tuesday, September 30 when all\u00a0school students will be presented with their made-to-measure school uniforms and exercise books, pens and pencils for the new school year.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>The tailors are in the process of taking measurements and they have the money to go to Phnom Penh to buy the cloth. We choose to use hard-wearing cloth rather than the light cloth generally available in the local town market &#8211; we&#8217;ve found the uniforms simply don&#8217;t last the distance in the village environment.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Inflation is now a big social problem\u00a0for the village and so we are ordering and paying for exercise books, pens and pencils this week to avoid paying even higher prices in September.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>When we arrive we&#8217;ll have much pleasure in sourcing a computer for the school. Imagine, the school which has no electricity will be getting a computer! How will it be powered? Stay tuned for updates during our visit!<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Always a highlight of our field trips is the annual school excursion which this year is planned for Saturday, October 11 when we will be taking 106 students to the Silk Farm and the Cultural Centre.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>We&#8217;re looking forward to meeting the students, especially those we have seen grow over several years, to learn how they are going, and how much help is needed for children to get to the high school which is some kilometres distant.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>And to see what is needed to give the school more resources.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>If you would like to share in this worthwhile endeavour, please let us know. We will be happy to let you know our Cambodia Bank Account with the ANZ Bank.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #0000ff; font-family: Bradley Hand ITC;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 13.5pt; color: blue;\">Martin and Margaret<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: black;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With just under eight weeks to go, plans are well advanced for our annual visit to the school. \u00a0 We arrive in the village on an auspicious day for the Khmer, Pchum Benh Day (Ancestors Day) &#8211; Sunday, September 28.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/news-updates\/update-on-school-visit-in-september\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}