Welcome To Our Schools
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All of our schools are built with skilled labor and with materials bought locally. The schools are safe, sound structures constructed above the flood plain to endure the rainy season. Each school has a large playground. Boys and girls from first through sixth grade attend. Our first school was at Poum Steung, a farm village 16 miles from Siem Reap. Sarith’s brother, Pran, selected this new school site because it was the poorest village in the area and the children there had to walk 5 km to the nearest school. With everyone's hard work and dedication our first school was completed on time and within budget (left). |
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Our second school is 45 miles from Siem Reap, in an area settled by displaced Kouy people. This ethnic group had been scattered by the Khmer Rouge. Many people are moving here to build homes, raise children and develop the Kouy community. As new settlers in this rural area, they were in great need of a school. Meetings were held to discuss the new school with the Kouy mayor (right). |
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On the right are a few Kouy students who had never before owned a pen, leaning on their new school uniforms and checking out their school supplies.
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Our third school was an anonymous gift from a member of Resurrection Catholic Church in Rochester, MN. Shortly after this school was finished, a second new school was built by another NGO near to it. Now all the children in Srei Pou have a dry place to learn – their earlier school was an open hut under a badly leaking roof! |
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Our fourth and newest school is in Sarith and Pran’s home village, Tampoeung. Here you see the whole village celebrating the opening of their school, and welcoming back one of their favorite sons, our esteemed chairman of the board, Sarith Ou. His sister, who lives and works the family farm here, donated the land for the school and playground. |
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