Earlier this month a group of MBA students from Stanford Univerity visited JWOC to learn more about our work and to take part in activities with our students. After their visit some of the students wrote mini profiles of the students they had spoken to. Read the...
Author: Chea Choeun
Have you made New Year’s resolutions?
JWOC always likes to be helpful and this January we want to help you with your New Year’s resolutions (and hopefully get in on the act as well!).Have you resolved to get fit in 2012? How about focusing your training and running a 10K race or half-marathon? There are...
An Essay from Bouakham about learning English
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...
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...