The Cambodia Rural School Project
The Monique Brousseau School
Mr. Vinh Nhor is the 35-year-old school director of the Monique Brousseau School. His house is located at the district town, about 8 kilometers away from the school and he rides a motorcycle to school every day.
He has two children; none of them attending the new school. They passed primary school and now one is in a junior high school and another in high school.
“I finished junior high school in my home town in 1987 and then went to the teachers school (pedagogy) in the provincial town of Siem Reap in 1988. After graduating from the teachers school, I was sent to teach children in the Samaki primary school, located in the same district as my present school, for the year of 1989. In 2002, I was promoted to the school principal,” Vinh Nhor said.
“All school children feel very happy to study in a nice building and this junior high school is close to their homes. In the past, students who passed the primary school and advanced to junior high school, cycled their bicycles for 20 kilometers forward and backward to the junior high school located in the district town,” he said.
“Furthermore, our students have opportunities to learn English and computer lessons as well as to learn how to grow vegetables in the Victory Garden supported by the school donor, Andrew Roach and Martha Taylor Roach. Education is important for their children, and the school community supported the school in the past year with various activities such as building a fence surrounding the school, contributing more plots of land, and filling the pot holes inside the school campus,” he said.
