The Cambodia Rural School Project
The Snourl Treit Nippon
Foundation School
Mr. Mao Saret is the director of the Snourl Treit Nippon Foundation School.
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I am thirty-five years old and have three children. All of them are at school. My wife is a farmer. We grow enough rice to feed our family, although our rice paddies are full of trees and we can’t grow as much as we should. This area is surrounded by jungle. I started teaching in 1998, and have been a director since 2000. In 1999, I went to a two-month teacher-training course provided by the Ministry of Education. Now, I teach the fourth and fifth grade. My favorite subjects to teach are Khmer and math. All students must learn how to read and write first. Then they move on to math. We teach each subject for three month, and then teach. The four subjects are Khmer, math, social studies, and science.
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| On the new building: | I am very happy with the new school, because this area is very poor. When the school was donated, everyone in the village was very happy, and now they want to look after the school. The previous school was built in 1998 in cooperation with the NPA [Norwegian People’s Aid] that provided the material for construction and had only two classrooms. It was made of wood, bamboo and thatch, but a few years later the whole structure went rotten and there was no way of fixing it again. |
