 Heading out to the village,
which, incidentally is called Prasat Char, with Sovan and his
cousin. We are taking out tools and seeds to the family in the
photograph on the right.
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 This woman is on her own and has 4 children. She
is a very hardworking woman and her meagre income comes from selling mats
that she makes in the market as well as collecting wood to sell for
cooking. When we asked her what she needed or how we could help her,
all she requested was tools and seeds, which we have provided, along with
some medicine when she was sick recently. |
 A little boy at the village checking out a new jumper we
gave him. |
 In this photo the same little boy was very unwell so we
took him to the children's hospital. It was the very first time any
of these people had been in a car. (The little boy is ok now.) |
 This man is a widower. His wife died in childbirth
two years ago and apparently a nurse or midwife kept the baby. He has 5 children to
support and is deaf as a result of an injury he suffered when he was a
soldier. He also happens to be one of the happiest people I've ever met!
The little girl is holding crayons and books that we gave them. |
We are hoping to find ways to help him and his family to
increase their income. Currently he makes baskets which he sells at
the market. This is his eldest daughter, in front of their home.
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 "Sowana
and friend" in the market. This picture also illustrates why
I'm virtually a vegetarian over here. This is an open air market, it
is hot and humid and the meat is simply displayed on dirty benches.
Note the flies on the pigs head. |
 Some
of most memorably moments have happened while I've been sheltering from
one of the frequent downpours. |
 The
"big" project we are hoping to do for the village is to address
their need for clean water. At the moment they only have open wells
which cause ill health. |
 The
water bottle on the left contains bottled water while the water bottle on
the right contains the well water. |
 We
are looking at the feasibility of putting in several water pumps
like this one. |
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 This
little baby girl lives in Prasat Char with her parents and three
siblings. I was lucky enough to meet her for the first time when she
was only 9 hours old. Women here simply have their babies at home
and there is a high mortality rate for both the infants and
mothers.
When we arrived at their hut and discovered the mother had just given birth 9 hours earlier I asked if I could go in and see them. I was able to go in and admire the newborn. Because of their belief in spirits though, as we had walked through the bush, they believed that spirits would have come into the hut with me and if they weren't banished they would frighten the baby and cause her to become ill or die. The remedy was that I was supposed to spit on the baby 3 times to frighten away the spirits. I thought "great, that might frighten the spirits away but what about all the foreign germs I might be carrying that she would have no immunity to". I was then told that blowing three times from the babies head to her feet would suffice, which is what I did. |
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