A SCHOOL AND WATER WELLS FOR TOUL PRASAT
Samaritan’s Purse is helping an entire community surrounded by unexploded landmines with water wells, sanitation and a school for their children
Cambodia’s poorest children literally risk life and limb trying to walk to school through minefields in Poipet, infamous as the country’s `Wild West’.
Among the 11 villages in Poipet is one with nearly 3,000 residents called Toul Prasat. With 455 children aged 6 to 12 years, one of Toul Prasat’s biggest needs was a new school. All they had for schooling was a 2-room thatched hut, so cramped that most students had to camp on the ground outside to study and many could only attend for half the day, missing out on valuable instruction.
Since that time Samaritan’s Purse has constructed a six-room concrete schoolhouse in Toul Prasat. Each schoolroom accommodates up to 40 children and are fully furnished with blackboards, desks and chairs for teachers and desks with benches for students. We’ve also built 4 latrines nearby for school use. As a result the new school has attracted the help of the Cambodian government, who have now provided teachers at the school.
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