Lao scholarship student Bouakham ( pictured) has written the essay below to help fellow students learn English...How to learn to speak excellent English?(Study smart Study less)Learning foreign languages is very important and necessary these days, particularly English. Why? Because English...
In this post project manager Bora explains more about his project...The project is operating in 6 villages surrounding JWOC, so that poor people around JWOC can get benefit from this project. The poor populations in these villages are combined of people who based here and people moved...
This recent New York Times article is a great explanation of why just installing wells isn't enough. Alongside installing wells JWOC teaches villagers how to repair wells and also does repair and strengthening work on existing wells, whoever first installed them. Read the article below or go to http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/keeping-the-water-flowing-in-rural-villages/?emc=eta1...
Read below the update Project Manager Sokhorn wrote last month about progress in Brasat Char village. I have been trying my best in working for sustainable development in the communities we work with and I am enjoying seeing the big changes happen.I am very happy to continue my working...
Fortunately the flood waters in Siem Reap have now more or less gone. It's amazing to look at villages that just 2 weeks ago had rivers instead of paths and see bare ground again. The flooding is now replaced with much more manageable puddles, but problems still exsist.Unfortunately...
The rain eventually stopped falling and Siem Reap Province started to dry out but this wasn't enough to make everything 'business as usual'. The road out to Brasat Char was still only passable on foot or on motorbike- neither of which are great choices for transporting over 300 ceramic...
Computer classes at JWOC have been started since November 2010. It’s nearly one year now and it runs smoothly by Lab Supervisor. November this year, 2011, we had started three new classes in the course of typing and Microsoft Office Word. All new classes are started and worked very...
Today was fortunately another mostly dry day, allowing again for water levels to drop. However, although water levels are going down there are still a vast array of problems. The one the Clean Water team had to deal with today was a lack of road... Reaching the end of the road. A section...
Yesterday was a busy day!The children's dry haven at JWOC was bustling with 63 coming for lunch. The team of staff and volunteers worked well together to get everyone fed and watered. Getting set up for lunch, each child receives rice, a meat and vegetable dish plus soup and water. Lots...
We are now on day 3 of our emergency response and about to start a new activity- distribution of materials in the two squatters' villages furthest from JWOC. South Veal village.A survey yesterday morning of the children attending the dry haven let us know that no one from either Veal...
The first part of JWOC's relief response to the flooding in Siem Reap has been about reducing the disease risk for children in the urban communities where we work. JWOC is fortunately staying dry amongst the floods. Keeping children out of the flood waters, where the risk of disease and...
