Our crew delivered and installed 64 Bio-Sand Filters (BSF) to our anxious villagers . I decided to make a one day trip to the villages to observe their reaction. What a day it was! It was actually very emotional...
Encouraged to do so by our International Service Committee member, Phyllis Wolfe, it was decided to incorporate women’s health issues into our program this year. It would be best if Jen Clarke and Shelby Kaplan reported on this emerging...
I would like to believe we played a small part in the self-help renaissance in Char Village. There is a misconception that poor villagers are there for each other…sharing their daily bread with their neighbors. That is just...
Week number five and the fabrication of well and latrine rings, cover plates and squat toilet foundations begins with materials delivered last week. The local Pagoda has allowed us to set up on their grounds in a large...
We met with the County Commissioner (Commune Chief) and the Village Chief of Leap and worked out a plan. The plan which included 3 dug wells and 21 latrines was a done deal. However, when we had had our...
In January 2020 our Water for Cambodia team conducted a survey of our three 2018 Villages and our 2020 target villages. They discovered three factors which could influence our planned implementation: 1-Political changes in the county had held up...
Today, Monday the 17th of February, I met with Water for Cambodia (our Rotary founded and funded Cambodian partner) to review our first three weeks of work on this year’s project. It will be a great meeting as we...
What a productive week in the villages! We met with 3 village chiefs from our 2018 field work in Char, Romeat and Kandal to make sure all systems were functioning, checked in with 3 new village chiefs in Sala,...
As we bounced along the dirt road on the way to Char village, I was surprised to see power poles paralleling the road. Just two years before I had been advised that electricity wasn’t expected for another decade. What...
In 2018 Getting Water Right rewarded the cooperation of the students in hygiene classes by building soccer fields at two schools…. Kandal and Romeat. The Rotary Club of Bath donated the funds. Just a few hundred dollars has changed...