Friday, January 20, 2017

The Happy Room

Dear Friends,

We hope the year is off to a good start. Here we just finished bringing one of the basic needs in life to a inner city school in Siem Reap...Bathrooms!!! Something many of take for granted however here in Cambodia that is not the case.


We have been working with Feeding Dreams Cambodia for many years supporting their great work; which provides very poor urban kids with english lessons, nutritious meals, computer training as well as hospitality training all for free. Most of the kids who attend Feeding Dreams live in urban slum areas and work as trash collectors, beggars or sellers. The school runs programs morning, afternoon and evening and altogether there are more than 800 students that attend daily.

K.I.D.S. has assisted with the computer lab, social service programs and clean drinking water. This year, thanks to our terrific partners, Compassionate 
Eye Foundation, we were able to replace their two terrible bathrooms (that did not work most of the time) with a modern four stall bathroom and washroom area.
We also moved it far away from the clean drinking water system and classrooms...which is much more hygienic.


Now students and teachers can have descent, clean and private bathrooms that work.



Here they often refer to the bathroom as "The Happy Room" and believe us we have all made this school a lot happier.

The Happy Room

All the best to you and yours,

Adrianne and Rick