In this post Clean Water Project Manager Seng writes about his experience during the first four months in the role, highlighting JWOC's work both in schools and in rural villages.
I am very well and happy working with
JWOC for 4 months. There are 19 scholarship students volunteering in my project,
9 students work on Saturday and the others work on Sunday. Since I have been working at JWOC, I have done
activities in two different places, at schools on Saturday and in the villages
on Sunday. At school, we have done specialized training to all principals and
one teacher of each school, representative of all teachers in the schools and are
still providing Hygiene Training to students.
There are four schools have been
done, Krous, Kok Patry, Svay Donkum and Phom Thnol primary schools. There are
more than 2000 students having been provided hygiene training. The students,
teachers and the principals of schools are welcoming and very happy that because
of us they have clean water to drink, enough water using in the class and
knowledge of good hygiene practices. Please have a look at some photos of activities
and achievements our team has done at school.
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| Teeth cleaning training |
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| Hand washing training |
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| Distributing hygiene packs and drinking bottles |
For the villages, I have worked
in three villages. I started at the end of Ta Kam village, doing filters
training, and completed the whole village of Pong Ro village. But we cut down
some steps of the projects for this village, just providing hygiene training,
because we found that there were many wells and filters provided by other organizations
after asking the village chief and getting the team to check through the whole village
before putting the clean water project. It helps the villagers to know how to
care for their health that help improve their lives.
Now I have been processing
the project in Kouk Beng village that is about 9 kilometers from JWOC, to the
north. There are 273 households and there are many wells in this village but most
of them are broken and the people still lack of good hygiene practice in their
lives, maybe because other organizations have not provided them the hygiene
training. We have seen three places to install new wells, where the families
around are very poor and don’t have enough water to use. Repairing the broken
wells will provide much help to the villagers in this village. I hope this
village will be much changed after we finish our Clean Water project, because
the village chief and the group leaders have been trying hard to help develop
their village.
Below are some activities of the
villages we have done.
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| Village hygiene training |
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| Distributing hygiene packs |
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| Well repair training |
