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YOUR DONATIONS AT WORK |
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The newly completed dorms were very nice but lacked privacy for some of the older teenagers and so we used the wood from one of the sleeping platforms and were able to create three private rooms on the girls side for less then $700.00. We hope to do the same for the boys side in the near future and thanks to a $1000.00 donation from the Douglas A Campbell Foundation we should be able to furnish both sides much sooner then expected. |
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Hydroponic Gardening was an experiment I did in Chemistry, I failed not only the project but the course as well. When Mark said he wanted to start one I was skeptical but he assured me it would work because he had grown marijuana that way in his younger days. We have a few “bugs” to work out of the system but once we do, we hope to create a gardening system that families can use to produce vegetables for their tables year round. We have about $900.00 stuck into it right now, and thanks to a recent donation of $500.00 from the Sakka Foundation we will be able to continue the experiment. |
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With nearly 20 children in Secondary school we needed a study room with internet access. This room was one of the classrooms for preschool but with a little work it is now ready for use by our older kids, thanks to books and computers that were donated by various people over the years. |
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Our fishponds were stocked over a year ago but we ran out of money to feed them and so planted vegetation to keep them alive. With and increase in donation this year we were able to start feeding them again and are now ready to bring them to the market but to net the fish we needed to clear the vegetation. Like with most of the work that needs doing, our children pitch in… they are not afraid of working, especially when it is in the water, and in just a couple of days we have piles of plants that will become compost for our gardens. |
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Most important, your donations go to help children like Somnang, who is 9 years old, just recently orphaned, and found to be HIV positive. Because of that no one wanted to take care of him and so he was brought to us. He has never gone to school and has never received treatment for his HIV.
Thanks to those of you who are supporting us, Somnang is now getting private tutoring that will hopefully get him into second grade next school year and he was seen at the hospital in Takeo yesterday and started on preliminary treatment that will led to his taking the ARV drugs that could give him a nearly normal life.
Taking on kids like Somnang is a commitment of more than ten years but with your continued support the Wat Opot Community will be able to provide not just a shelter, but a real home for him and the many other children already in our care. |