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...
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Bora writes about the Microfinance Project
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...
Importance of well repairs
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...
Clean Water Update from Sokhorn
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...
Flood Relief Update- Phase Two
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...
Flood Relief Update-Brasat Char Village
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...
Read our latest update about our computer classes by our Lab Supervisor, Man
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...
Flood Relief Update- Clean water for Brasat Char village
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...
Flood Relief Update- Reducing disease risk for children
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...