Sen Sok primary school located in the north part of Phnom Penh, the capital city, Cambodia. Even though it’s a school in the sub-urban of Phnom Penh, you can not look it as a nice place to learn, play and grow in the childhood period. There was no clean water to wash hands and toilets. Students bring a bottle of water from home with a reused plastic water bottle. Most of the students didn’t have shoes, and of course, no socks. They go to the school with their bare feet and without school bags.
I chose Sen Sok primary school, because it’s one of the school in Phnom Penh, in need of help.There are over 2,100 students at the school. We can see 2~4 students sitting on the same bench and more than 100 students sitting in a classroom. There are no windows, no fans, no lights in the classroom. In the cloudy day and or rain seasons, it’s harmful to the eye sights of the students.
I also found there’s only one water well at the school. It provides dark yellow water and students use it to wash hands by filling it with buckets. Water supply system is out of order, there’s no water for the toilets, all the doors of the toilets were locked.
Most of the students don’t have shoes, school bags and stationary. They use a small board to answer the questions from their teacher. There’s no internet, no computers, no printers, no copy machines at Sen Sok primary school. The source of information they can get is from the old TV they only have.
It took me 11 hours from my hometown to the school. I visited the school and took many photos. then I uploaded the photos to Google Local guide platform and shared the photos with my friends in Taiwan. I also used the photos and videos I took to prepare a presentation to tell all my friends what Sen Sok primary school needed.
I planned this project related procurement in local, funding and donation, volunteer recruit, anything related execution, …etc. for 11 months by using google local guide platform.
Finally, students have the first pair of new shoes in their life, a new school bag, new pen and stationary, a fresh water pipeline system to support toilets and hand-washing sinks, lights on the ceiling of each classroom, new toilets, garbage recycle location, new walking pathway, NB computers/printer/copy machine/internet for the teachers to get information and design teaching documents for the students.Over 200 volunteers and 30 doctors flew to Cambodia from Taiwan to help the students.
