We have found two more schools where the personnel are committed to providing basic schooling for children from rural backgrounds. They are situated in the Homale municipality, about ten kilometres from Battambang.
We have planned to support all the pupils of these schools, from the beginning of the trimester. There is a total of 89 pupils in one scool and 503 in the other one. We will provide them all with what we call our “school survival kits”, with contain the most necessary material needed to study successfully, notably: 5 note books, 3 ballpoint pens, 2 erasers and some pencils, as well as a uniform with the AVEC logo.

 

 

As a matter of fact, several unforeseen visits have convinced us that a majority of the pupils possess neither pencils nor a note book worth the name. For the sake of the quality and the continuity of the pupils’ school work, it is important to provide them with adequate material. This might seem clear and very basic, in a European context, but here, people make do with what they have. Since most of the classes are overpopulated, containing up to 50 pupils per class, we hope that our help will permit the teacher to finally put each and every child to work. Moreover, we provide the teachers with a stock of material so that they themselves can build and steer the schools’ resource banks. This material will be kept under locks, to avoid bad surprises during the school year.

One of the schools seems to have a chronic problem with pupils being absent. We will concentrate on remedying this, using all the experience we have gathered from our work in Dâksoso.


We are looking for a company that would be prepared to take up the expenses for our October project. That will not represent an enormous investment, and we are at your disposition for communicating the sum that will be needed for the operation.

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Text corrected and translated by: Charlotta Friedner