The Cambodia Rural School Project
The Prek Am Nippon
Foundation School
Mr. Cheam Chheng is the director of the Prek Am Nippon Foundation School.
| On himself | I am fifty-nine years old. I am a teacher since 1982 and director since 1985. My wife is a farmer. Our daughter’s two children are both studying at this school.
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| On the new building:
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When we got the new school building, I was very happy. The people living around here were also happy. They all joined to build the fence around the school. The old school was where the flagpole is now. It only had three rooms. It was a wooden building with a tin roof. When this new school was built, the old school was already very old. The wind had destroyed one classroom and we could use only two of the three rooms. I was always worried that the school would collapse and injure the students. Now we have enough rooms, but I still have to send forty-five students to another school, because we lack teachers. Next year I will be able to enroll them all. Then this school will have two hundred and fifty students.
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