The Cambodia Rural School Project
The Louise Zlatic Kielbik School
Mr. Un Nary, the 47-year old directer of the Louise Zlatic Kielbik School.
Mr. Un Nary is the 47-year-old directer of the Louise Zlatic Kielbik School. He is married and has four sons and one daughter. One of his sons attends the school.
“The village chief made me a teacher in 1979 right after Cambodia’s liberation from the Khmer Rouge.”
“The local authorities appointed me to be a teacher because I used to teach children during the war against the American-backed Lon Nol regime from 1970 to 1975. I was stationed in this village when the region was under Khmer Rouge control.”
“I had two jobs forced on me by the Khmer Rouge during the war: one was as a teacher, and another was as captain of the Children’s Group in the area. I led them to work in the morning and in the afternoon, and taught them during lunch time. There were no school buildings; children studied under the shade of the trees and only grades one to three existed. After they took power in April 1975, they closed down the school and then switched me to work with the district’s authorities in the region.”
“In 1981, I attended a three-month long course on Pedagogy in the provincial town of Kompong Speu and got promoted to the director of the school in 1989.”
