Sunday, July 13, 2008
My location: Kampong Cham, Suong Town
If you notice on the map above Kampong Cham is located just northeast of Phnom Phen. My site is located in Suong, a small town east of the main city.
Here is a description:
Suong is a dusty roadside market town on the main highway through Kampong Cham province (Muslim Province). It is mostly rice fields surrounding the town and villages pop up in the middle of the fields. HOPE for Cambodia's Children, Light For Life, Way of HOPE, and Mobilized for Life, Trafficking Free Villages and Christian Response to HIV/AIDS, are all programs under the HOPE umbrella, of which Joke Von Opstal is the overseeing director with Cambodian nationals running the logistics and is in this area. She functions as the pastoral mentor of staff for the whole country and has been in country nearly 20 years and now has adopted 7 Cambodian children. I will be staying (eating, sleeping and teaching) in a World Relief base office building right off of a dusty, but well used road. Staff are always around (so, yes, we will be really safe - we are the third team to go to this location).
Update - NOTE: I have also been told by someone who was at this site last year that we have a very amazing cook (yey!!), an internet cafe in town, a local team that watches out for our safety diligently, western toilets (quite a luxury), and a nice local market nearby. :)
Here is a description:
Suong is a dusty roadside market town on the main highway through Kampong Cham province (Muslim Province). It is mostly rice fields surrounding the town and villages pop up in the middle of the fields. HOPE for Cambodia's Children, Light For Life, Way of HOPE, and Mobilized for Life, Trafficking Free Villages and Christian Response to HIV/AIDS, are all programs under the HOPE umbrella, of which Joke Von Opstal is the overseeing director with Cambodian nationals running the logistics and is in this area. She functions as the pastoral mentor of staff for the whole country and has been in country nearly 20 years and now has adopted 7 Cambodian children. I will be staying (eating, sleeping and teaching) in a World Relief base office building right off of a dusty, but well used road. Staff are always around (so, yes, we will be really safe - we are the third team to go to this location).
Update - NOTE: I have also been told by someone who was at this site last year that we have a very amazing cook (yey!!), an internet cafe in town, a local team that watches out for our safety diligently, western toilets (quite a luxury), and a nice local market nearby. :)
# posted by ErinW @ 10:20 AM 
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