Month: April 2010

Follow-up visit by Rosemary

Rosemary from New Zealand has made another visit to Siem Reap following up on the medical treatment* for R_____ and meeting up with School Director, Mr Hon. (*Further details are found here.) She writes: Reaksmey has looked after us with grace and…

Memorandum of Understanding

Memorandum of Understanding   This document represents an agreement between   Martin and Margaret Yeomans (“RICE4LIFE” www.rice4life.sg) of Sydney, Australia and   Mr HOUR Kim Hon Khvien Primary School, Siem Reap, Cambodia   Description of collaborating organisations Martin and Margaret…

Recognised by Rotary International

Martin and Margaret have each received the Paul Harris Fellow Award by Rotary International for their work over nearly ten years in Cambodia. Medals and pins as well as beautiful presentation certificates were presented along with a cheque for $500 to be…

Margaret and Martin awarded for their work in Cambodia

This evening Margaret and I each received an award by Rotary International for our work over ten years in Cambodia. How nice, the citation says we made a difference! We’ve each received the Paul Harris Fellow Award. The Rotary movement was…

Bel’s group of landmine victims plan a new home

Thanks to the generosity of a donor, it’s now possible for the group of 18 people that Bel leads (all Khmer landmine victims) to re-locate. Following Typhoon Ketsana, the group, then known as KILT, were devastated by the storm waters…

Improving education in Khvien village

The standard of the school at Khvien has been recognised by the government in Phnom Penh and recently they held a conference of all the district’s teachers, not in the town of Siem Reap as may have been expected, but…

Where to now for Bel’s amputee group?

Where to now for Bel’s amputee group?     Following the devastation caused by Typhoon Ketsana, much re-building is necessary. For the members of Khmer Independent Life Team (KILT) this is almost ‘a bridge too far’. The 18 members are…

Day 4 – Visits to village schools

Today we visited 3 village schools more than 10 km distant from Siem Reap. The schools were founded by Chheang Phalla, a monk and teacher at Wat Preah Dak in the Angkor Wat Archaeological Park area. The schools have been…

Report from Cambodia – Days 1-3 of our visit

Dear Supporter of RICE4LIFE, We’ve been here since Monday evening, yet it seems longer, so much seems to have happened! All the school have received us warmly and yesterday we saw the delivery of rice to the teachers and S**********’s…