2021 has still been a difficult year for everyone... all over the world. We hope this email finds you and your family in good health.
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So far, Cambodia has been spared the worst from COVID-19. According to the Cambodian Ministry of Health, there have been 96,339 cases and 1,981 deaths as of August 8th, 2021.
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Education
All over the world, many students are at home with their families staying safe during the Covid 19 pandemic. In rural Pursat, although our schools are closed for the safety of our students, our teachers are still working from a distance to help their students with home assignments that our teachers deliver and collect.
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Inspiration: Meet Vicheka Youm, Graduate SC Scholar, and follow his Journey from SC Student to SC Operation Program Manager.
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Vicheka has been working as a full-time staff member at SC for almost ten years. He is now in charge of all programs at SC as the Operations Manager.
Vicheka is a former SC scholar with a background in horticulture. Now he plays an important role as a manager in both education and community development programs. He helps hundreds of children to get an education and thousands of village families in achieving self-sufficiency through safe water, income opportunity, and empowerment programs.
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Text to self-connection For Teenagers
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WASH for Villager Families
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This is Our Story for You!
During our school's closing, most of the programs and services are currently virtual. We continue to follow all public safety protocols including keeping a safe distance, wearing face masks, and hand washing.
Our teachers brought handouts to quarantined students in rural villages... Read more!
We are also working in the rural villages to provide community leaders with Covid-19 training and materials for prevention such as hygiene, how they can seek medical support as well as supporting them with face masks.
We appreciate your ongoing support in these difficult times. Let’s practice all the safety protocols for the safety of ourselves and others.
May everyone stay safe from this life-threatening disease.
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Community Development
We continue to do as much as we can to help village families through our empowerment programs to insure self-reliance and improve quality of life. Here is the summary of what we have achieved in the second quarter of 2021:
This quarter, mostly through our Rotary projects, we've installed 13 wells, 30 biosand filters, and 11 rooftop rainwater systems. Our Rotary clean water projects, including water wells, provide village families year-round water for daily use. This is important for health and also helps the village children so they aren't walking miles to carry water from distant places such as the river, canal, or community ponds for the family’s usage. Bio-Sand Filter (BSF) projects are also ongoing for clean drinking water. And Rooftop Rainwaters Harvesting tanks (RRH) are collecting rainwater from the rooftops during the rainy season to help supply water during the dry season.
With these community development projects in place, children can use their time to study, families can stay safe from water-borne diseases and communities can have abundant water during times of drought for crops and livestock.
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The Rotary-led community ponds program is going strong with 16 ponds dug this quarter. These ponds enable families to irrigate their gardens and feed their livestock year-round. The vegetables from the family garden program include local favorites such as pumpkin, bottle gourd, eggplant, Chinese kale, cucumber and green beans. The fruit trees include mango, orange, lemon and coconut. Family gardens provided vegetables to support the families' daily food as well as for sale in the local market to generate additional income.
This quarter, we've had numerous families participate in Self Help Groups and become part of our Rotary-sponsored Animal Pass-on program. When a family receives a pass-on animal, they are trained to care for the animal and sign a contract that they will pass on offspring to another family. This ongoing process will ensure everyone in the Self Help Group can participate in the Animal Pass-on Program.
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The Rotary Club of Gainesville will be holding its annual auction this December to benefit international projects and Sustainable Cambodia is this year's recipient!
If you would like to donate an auction item, please contact us!
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You Can Help SC While You Shop on Amazon!
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Do you shop on Amazon? If you do, you can help Sustainable Cambodia - with no cost to you - by signing up for Amazon Smile.
Thanks to customers shopping at smile.amazon.com, or with AmazonSmile ON in the Amazon Shopping app, everyday purchases have generated over $321 million in donations to charities worldwide so far.
To date, Amazon Smile has donated $1,329.55 to Sustainable Cambodia just because some wonderful supporters of SC have signed up for Amazon Smile.
This is a great way to continually give to SC - by just doing your normal shopping!
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