The Cambodia Rural School Project
The Osamu and Noriko
Sugita School
Men Nourn is an 11-year-old second grade student at the school. She was ranked fifth among the 30 students in her class. Her father has been separated from her mother for a long time and lives in Phnom Penh. Her mother is a farmer. She has four older brothers and sisters, and they all graduated from the same primary school.
| On the new building: | “I like the new building because I will learn a lot and become clever. The old building had no room and no tables; we were studying in the monk’s house. It is much easier to sit down, to read, and to write in this building.”
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| On her future: | “I plan to graduate primary school, and then I want to go to Phnom Penh to work in a garment factory. I don’t want to do anything else, because I only want to get an education. I also want to be a teacher, so that I can teach the students.”
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| Message for Osamu and Noriko Sugita: | “I would like to thank Osamu and Noriko Sugita for making this building possible.” |
