It has been such an incredible year at Journeys Within Our Community (JWOC) and we would like to share some of our most beautiful photographs with you. So much happens at JWOC in one year and we have done our best to capture the smiles and hard work that happens in...
Relief Project
The beauty behind buzzwords
Alexandra Plummer, the Managing Director of JWOC explains the buzzwords that the sector uses through JWOC's current projects.I can talk about JWOC for hours; from the unprecedented commitment of our staff and scholarship students and the positive change we make in the...
One step ahead; working with the community to mitigate the effects of flooding
Flooding during the rainy season in the months of September and October is common in Cambodia. In 2011 and 2013, the flooding was particularly severe and damaging; thanks to the generous support of donors, JWOC was able to provide emergency relief to villages in the...
Stories from Community Liaison and Assistance
In this post we look at two of the people helped by JWOC’s Community Liaison and Assistance Project. This project was started last year in response to the extended flooding that hit Cambodia and other parts of Southeast Asia. Our activities were initially relief work...
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...
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...
Flood Relief Update- Reducing disease risk for children- Veal and Tropean Ses Villages
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...