My Year in Cambodia
I arrived in Cambodia on Saturday 12th December, almost a year ago now. It has been an amazing year jam packed with wonderful experiences. The day of my arrival happened to coincide with the birthday celebration of Ms Sonai...
I arrived in Cambodia on Saturday 12th December, almost a year ago now. It has been an amazing year jam packed with wonderful experiences. The day of my arrival happened to coincide with the birthday celebration of Ms Sonai...
Seven of our Grade 7 students are beneficiaries of our scholarship fund. The 7 girls are living together in a house near the school where our Moral Studies teacher Miss Savin Ao is looking after them. They come from...
On Tuesday 1st November, our new grade 7 students embarked on their first year in secondary school. Many of them were already familiar with the school, some having joined us for summer school in September, others were involved in...
On the 21st of October at 10.45, 18 Professors and 3 staff members of the Business Faculty of Sogang University in Seoul in Korea, came to visit the Xavier Jesuit School Project in the company of Fr. Kim John...
On the 10th October 2016 at 7.30 a.m., Fr. Quyen Vu and the acting Principal, Mr. Mouk Rath, opened the three week “curriculum workshop” for the team of part-time teachers who will teach our first class of secondary students...
On the 10th of October 2016, our four kindergarten classes started their new school year, two at Dey Lo village and two at Phnom Bak village. The two classes at Dey Lo village have a rice-soup breakfast before starting. ...
On the 7th October 2016, three Presentation Sisters arrived in Sisophon to join the education project. Sr. Lizzy Mathew, Sr. Anne Lyons and Sr. Preethi Chacko participated in their first community gathering that evening. Fr. Greg Priyadi presided the...
On Tuesday the 27th September 2016 at 8.00 a.m., Mr. Kham So, the Commune Chief and Mr. Kham Ma Voeung, the Village Chief, presided over the closing ceremony of the Summer School 2016. Ms. Da Somnang won the prize...
On Wednesday the 21st of September 2016 at precisely 1.00 p.m. in the afternoon, the Summer School Inter-Class football competition began. Four teams of seven aside played on a water-logged pitch in their bare feet. Each class fields one...
Construction work continues during the September summer school program. The frame for the roof is ready for the eight new primary school classrooms. This project is funded by Joy of Sharing and a Korean parish group. The columns for...
The afternoon activities allow each of our volunteers to share their skills and culture with the young grade 6 students. The husband and wife team of Johnathan and Katherine from Hong Kong lead the work-shop on Chinese culture. Our...
On the 1st of September 2016, at exactly 7.00 a.m., our third Summer School Program opened. Almost 100 lively students cycled their bikes or walked from their homes to the Community Learning Centre. They have just finished their primary...
The curriculum development workshop began on August 1st and will continue until August 26th. There are twenty one teachers attending, eleven from our own Xavier Jesuit School, six from Enfant de Mekong, and two from Kompong Cham Prefecture and...
On July 4 Fr Clement, SJ from Hong Kong Wah Yan College visited Xavier Jesuit School with two teachers and 10 Form Six students. The kindergarten kids taught them their favourite action songs and how to count in Khmer....
On 1st June 2016 from 8-10am, the community kindergarten of Dey Lo and Xavier Jesuit School in Phnom Bak celebrated International Children’s Day together at the Community Learning Center (CLC). The kindergarten coordinator Ms. Ah Thavy gave a very...
On the 7th of May 2016 at 4 p.m., the Perfect Design and Construction Company Ltd. (PDC) started to drive in the first piles for the foundations of the eight new primary classrooms which will be constructed according to...