The Cambodia Rural School Project
The Adler Family School
Mr. Say Phoan is a forty-six-year-old farmer. He has five children; three of them come to study at the school.
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“I have a four-hectare rice fields and a three-hectare fruit orchard of. With a four-hectare rice field my family has enough rice to eat year round, and when there is enough rainfall I get enough rice even to sell. My villagers sell rice, vegetables, fish, pigs, and cows to a market in Bar Keo, 16 km away from the village. We normally go to the market on foot and it takes four hours to get there.”
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| On the new building:
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“The donor has given us a school, and we are happy because we have never had a concrete school building in our village. As an ethnic minority, I think that our people needs this school more than any other kind of support, because education should be our first priority. The illiteracy rate in this village is about 90 percent and I hope that the new school will help reduce the illiteracy in the future.” |
