Saturday, July 25, 2009

Here is the finished product. I was told that the new road is used by more people than ever before. People with their tractors, cows, water buffalo-drawn carts, motorbikes and walkers use this mud-free road.
Most people asked me to sit in the shade while they did the hard work. No thanks, I'm not a sitter.
The youngest child to help rake out the stone was 4 year old Bon Tin.
Even the children helped rake out the stone. This was no easy task in the heat of the day.
About a dozen neighbors came out to rake the stone evenly on the road.
At $35.00 per truck load of stone and $350.00 later the stone was placed on the road.
Another view of this muddy road.
Here is a road in a village that my friends and their families live on. During the rainy season this road becomes quite muddy. Being in the shade this road stays muddy for 2 days. I decided to lay down stone on this 4 block road after I became tired of walking in mud.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Here is the one class in their new school uniforms.
All the children immediately changed into their new school uniforms.
Here I am handing out more school uniforms for the children of this village.
When the uniforms arrived I revisited the village to personally hand out the uniforms to the children.
I recently visited a school in a village deep in Cambodia. After a discussion with their teacher I found out that the children would like school uniforms when I asked what they would want most. I then arranged to have 60 uniforms for 2 classes to be made and delivered to the school.
About a mouth ago I took my Cambodian friends to a water park in the city of Phnom Penh. The park had decent water slides and a wave pool as you see here. This group of 10 had not been to a water park before. The expressions they made coming down the slides and the laughter I heard were incredible.
On the way to the ocean my group of 14 people and I stopped off at this waterfall and had lunch. The kids and I swam in the lower section of the falls.
Here is a group of people that I took to a Cambodian beach. I took about 14 people with over half being children to an ocean resort. All but one person had never been to the beach and ocean. I rented a speed boat that pulled a large inflatable boat. 10 of us hopped on this boat and we splashed and bounced through the waves.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Larry, a friend who came to visit Cambodia, performed a dive off a 3 floor boat when we visited the Cambodian ocean. I caught this dive with my Canon camera set on high speed action. I placed the 8 images in Adobe photoshop to give the effect that you see.
I was impressed with his focus and determination to complete his typing. The children I have met in Cambodia seem to have a great desire to learn.
Recently I have been working in a center for disadvantaged and abandoned children. I assist with their medical care. The children live at the center and are provided food, clothing and school including English and computer. Here is You Phal (You Pal) practicing his typing skills. He has a short story from NY City in English and types the entire thing out.
The trees in the Anchor Wat area in Cambodia are tremendous. This tree is one of those featured in the Jurassic Park movie. These trees are also found in Hawaii.