Ouk Thol, his wife and their 3 children were provided a toilet thanks to Hands on Journeys visit to SCAO II The poverty of the family is such that the oldest daughter had to drop out of school. With the father unemployed, their only steady income comes from the snacks and fruits the mother sells. […]
After having planned it for several months, Srey Lat who has been living and working at SCAO since 2008 now and Rithy, her betrothed, married in a 2-day celebration on February 14, and the following day. The first day, on Valentine’s Day, when they for instance went to Pagoda to offer rice to the monks […]
The village of Prey Ponror located 25 kilometres northwest of Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. There are 16 villages in close proximity to Prey Ponror Village, and all of these are within cycling distance to the location of the new SCAO Education and Community Centre (SCAO III). The majority of the households in Prey […]
A group of volunteers taught about the risks involved when people do not take care of nature. The following explains how the day went. During breakfast on the morning of Friday the 13th of February all volunteers at SCAO II discussed the upcoming green classes and their hopes and fears relating to the success of […]
From the 1st to the 6th of September, S.C.A.O II had hosted and co-organised a 6 days Circus workshop, provided and ran by the Circòsmic Company, a group of jugglers, clowns, acrobats and trapeze artists from Barcelona, Spain. The company is not new from working with children in developing contexts. They have been travelling quite […]
Lions, aliens, a spider-man chicken and a dinosaur are only some of the characters who our students from S.C.A.O. II made up during the Far Far Away Project workshops setted up in Som Roung village from the 6th to the 10th of October. The project is run by Abhi and Justyina, a couple who is […]
On the 29th of July the volunteers at S.C.A.O. II presented during lessons hours the “Oral Hygiene Project”, which also included teeth cleaning workshops. The Oral Hygiene Project was presented in each class at S.C.A.O. II. During the day we had the presentation “how to brush our teeth” and discussed why do we need teeth, […]
Continuing on from a distribution project started back in Spring 2013, S.C.A.O. has adapted its distribution of materials to the poorest families in Som Roung Village. The project started off by distributing rice and fish sauce to families. Now we have had more donations of various different materials from all over the world. Fifty of […]
Kids all over the world love football. But especially here in Cambodia, a country where people still live in extremely poor conditions and which is still feeling the effects of years of repression and civil war, practicing a sport might be more than a simple hobby or break from the daily routine. Som Roung is […]
On Sunday the 6th of April we invited 50 of the villages poorest families to the school.Rice field in Som RoungHere we distributed 7kg of rice and a large bottle of fish sauce to each family, as well as clothing that had been donated by various donors and volunteers. Distributing the clothes was an energetic, […]
What do you see as the biggest benefit of attending classes here for yourself and others? The first thing that by teaching here I get more experience at teaching English and with speaking English with all the volunteers that come through. It improves my heart and English to work with so many people. Sometimes in […]
In the end of June SCAO II hosted an Irish volunteer Kathy, a teacher with 9 years experience, who was very kind to provide two teacher’s training in both schools. As for new volunteers, as for Khmer assistants, fresh breath of new and slightly different vision of education was very productive and useful. At the […]