Before New Year, 27-28 December, small hands to help others

On 27-28 December 2008, before New Year of 2009. My well known friends who used to live with me in Catholic Church Student Center (CCSC) and in CLC Generation 4 group came together to donate some things to some needed help families (16 families). It was so nice and enjoyable as we could do something for our Cambodian society. It was in Chumkiri, Kampot province.

In CLC group, we loved to share knowledge, sad or happy story in our life, we found that after we finished university and we are working now... we still want to keep in touch together among the team and we want to do something more deeply beside sharing so that the idea with an action came, that's it. For myself, I'm really appreciated with such program, that's one way to do it. Small but has meaningful.

Thanks to Chanthorn, Soton, Sokha, Pisey, Vin, Piseth, Rann, Vanne, Navy, Damo, Sophal, Fr. Indon, Fr. Sun who had donated some money to buy Blankets, Mosquito nets, Clothes, Sampots.
Thanks to Fr. Sun who helped us in food and accommodation, we loved it so much.
Thanks to Fr. Danis who drove us to go around in the village.
Thanks to Magis group/program who donated the clothes through Fr. Indun to join our program.
Thanks also to aunt and uncle over there who helped to guide us to the right in need families.
We also remind to the rest of our team who always give us the warm messages.

Special thanks to Sokha and Pisey who helped to lead the program and organize the things before we went.

Here are the pictures:

More later..
And another family not there when we were so kept them with others...

Be side, going to the families, we went to visit a grandfather of Rany who is now very sick...
So appreciate with Pisey who is now seem becoming a good nurse with the patient.

Finally, we are here:
See? with silent sleep before back to Phnom Penh.

Help without expect any feedback, we expected only to pay it forward!

CAMBODIA - CCSC Scholarship and a concern on high school exam quality

CAMBODIA(CCSC) - After few days interview at Catholic Church Student Center (CCSC) for its scholarship provided for poor and challenge students after their succeed in high school exam this year 2008, we found a very big concern to their grade and their ability.

The interview went through with 52 students among 96 students from all the places in Cambodia who registered to CCSC for 2008-2009 scholarship, from Friday 05 - Sunday 07 September. The scholarship proceed with 3 exams of Maths, Khmer / General Culture and English; and afterward conducting with an interview with 6 members of scholarship selection committee.

Comparing to the result of the exam at CCSC and the results got from high school exam this year, there are so different. Some students who got a very good score in Maths, Physics etc. in grade C or D have failed to CCSC exam but differently some students who get grade E have passed the exam instead.

With the interview, they have told that during the exam many corruption happened, "we needed to give money to the teachers who in charge in the room in order to be possible to read documents or watch someone else in the class, if not, we couldn't possible even do our work". Some students agreed that they got good score because of they had read other documents during the exam and gave money to the teachers.

But during the CCSC exam, we have also some students in grade B and C that had a very good score and they said they were possible to get this grade or could be better than this grade they had, "Of course, we have also read documents during the exam but not all subjects. For science subjects, we have no way to read better than use our knowledge to do them. If the exam fairs enough we could get better score than this." Most of the students had failed or feared with Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Khmer liturature, they had spent so much money in private class to study those subjects during their studying in high school.

After finished all interviews, other 2 conducted meeting made by the committee in order to select the succeed students. We had now choose 8 boys and 11 girls from different places/churches in Cambodia.

The students this year came from Battambang, Kampong Thom, Pursat, Phnom Penh, Kampot, Kampong Cham, Banteay Mean Chey and Prey Veng.

(Personal Feedback by Metrey, a selection committee member)