New York Students' Ripples of
Hope Creating Waves in Cambodia
Wednesday, 29 Feb. 2012
Borei Keila Eviction Site
Gifts for Approx. 140 Families
Living in Limbo after Violent Evictions
US$800
of School Supplies (200 Care Packages,
plus 200 bags of snacks and 240 bottles of water) from Springville
Middle School Students for Children Evicted from their Borei Keila Homes
in Cambodia; remaining $700 for Teachers Training on
Courage Without Borders curriculum with CIVICUS Cambodia
Authority
More photos...
Theary Seng with Mr. Sia Phearum, director of the Housing Rights Task Force
Each care package for 140 Children at Evicted Site of Borei Keila consists of wrapped gift, along with a bag of snacks/candies and a bottle of water, accompany with note telling the children that the gifts come from Springville Middle School students as well as the Jan. 18 Press Release explaining the Day of Silence, both in the Khmer language. Yes, it's getting scorching hot here! And yes, that is perspiration from the tropical heat.
Each care package carries a note
telling the Borei Keila students that the gift comes from Springville
Middle School students as well as the Jan. 18 Press Release in Khmer
giving the background to the Day of Silence.
Mr. Sia Phearum, director of the Housing Rights Task Force (video by Theary Seng)
New York Students' Ripples of Hope
Creating Waves in Cambodia
The Dissemination of Gifts to Borei Keila Students
will be on WEDNESDAY, 29
Feb. 2012
(instead of Tuesday, Feb. 28).
9:
20 - 10:00 A.M. at Borei Keila
Depart
Phnom Penh at 10 A.M.
10:45 - 12 NOON at Settlements in Oudong
In addition to CIVICUS Cambodia staff, we have invited and will be
joined by Mr. SIA Phearum, director of Housing Rights Task Force,
media including Voice of America, and other friends including Mr. RONG Chhun, president of the Cambodian
Independent Teachers' Association, Ms. Michaela Korb of Rotary Club
International and Ms. Kate Mackintosh.
We have created 200 gifts of color pencils, pencils, pencil
sharpeners, rulers, notebooks, erasers, etc. wrapped in a large krama,
totaling US$700. Another $100 will go toward snacks and bottled water
to hand out with the wrapped gifts. As there are approximately 100
families still living in limbo in Borei Keila, we will allocate 100-120
gifts, each gift per family, and the rest to the 80 families living in
the settlement in Oudong, a one-hour drive outside of Phnom Penh.
Each gift contains the above items, wrapped in a krama, tied with red ribbon.
Inside each krama gift contains the items shown above, to be wrapped in red ribbon. 200 gifts prepared for children living in limbo in Borei Keila and in the settlement of Oudong.
CIVICUS Staff wrapping the gifts to be disseminated on Wednesday morning.
The note accompanying each gift. It reads: "Gifts from Springville Middle School students in New York, US to students evicted from Borei Keila and living in Oudong Settlement." In red: "DAY OF SILENCE".
(The remaining $500 of the $1,300 will go toward t-shirts for
teacher-representatives training with RFK Center-CIVICUS Cambodia Courage
Without Borders curriculum.)
Please come join us enlarge the ripples of hope created
by these brave young human rights defenders from Springville Middle
School in New York.
Shalom,
Theary C. Seng
Founding President,
CIVICUS: Center for Cambodian Civic Education
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