Daily Record (Washington, USA)
When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water, Benjamin Franklin reportedly said.
Central Washington University students Phola Sun and Pholi Sun have seen firsthand how important water can be. On Dec. 9 they’ll travel to Cambodia to help a tiny village there finally get clean drinking water. With the help of CWU’s Students for Service organization and the International Students Association, they’ve been running their campaign, the Cambodia Well Project, since they visited the country in December 2005.
So far, the sisters have raised about $750 of the $1,000 they say they need to build a clean-water well in the village of Krabov. The well will help provide water to the about 80 families who live there, according to Phola Sun. They are planing to spend two weeks in Cambodia helping to build the well.
“It seemed the poorest out of all the places I’ve been to,” Phola Sun said about the village. “A well could be something they could use for years to come.”
While many parts of the country have recovered from the genocidal Pol Pot regime of the 1970s, some rural areas still suffer from a lack of basic needs, according to Pholi Sun.
“It’s developing” Pholi Sun said about Cambodia. “(But) the little villages are still struggling.”
Most Cambodians do not have access to safe drinking water, and people face a high risk of contracting a waterborne disease, according to the CIA’s World Factbook.
The Cambodia Well Project asks people to drink nothing but water for a week and take the extra money they would have spent on coffee of soda and donate it to help construct a well.
If you are interested in assisting the Cambodia Well Project, contact Phola Sun at
sunp@cwu.edu or 425-344-1894.
Central Washington University students Phola Sun and Pholi Sun have seen firsthand how important water can be. On Dec. 9 they’ll travel to Cambodia to help a tiny village there finally get clean drinking water. With the help of CWU’s Students for Service organization and the International Students Association, they’ve been running their campaign, the Cambodia Well Project, since they visited the country in December 2005.
So far, the sisters have raised about $750 of the $1,000 they say they need to build a clean-water well in the village of Krabov. The well will help provide water to the about 80 families who live there, according to Phola Sun. They are planing to spend two weeks in Cambodia helping to build the well.
“It seemed the poorest out of all the places I’ve been to,” Phola Sun said about the village. “A well could be something they could use for years to come.”
While many parts of the country have recovered from the genocidal Pol Pot regime of the 1970s, some rural areas still suffer from a lack of basic needs, according to Pholi Sun.
“It’s developing” Pholi Sun said about Cambodia. “(But) the little villages are still struggling.”
Most Cambodians do not have access to safe drinking water, and people face a high risk of contracting a waterborne disease, according to the CIA’s World Factbook.
The Cambodia Well Project asks people to drink nothing but water for a week and take the extra money they would have spent on coffee of soda and donate it to help construct a well.
If you are interested in assisting the Cambodia Well Project, contact Phola Sun at
sunp@cwu.edu or 425-344-1894.
2 comments:
ta and yeay...had donated to cambodian poor people thousands of wells already...but you never mention or thank to them...don't you think this is a pick and choose news....you and people of cambodia owe a lot of thanks to "ta and yeay" who help and want nothing back......be fair and write something about ta and yeay...ok
I agree that 'ta and yeay' have done so so much. I wonder who did the first comment. You should appreciate the two sisters. They do this from their intrinsic feelings. This is very different than Ta and Yeay.
Ta and yeay may do that on the political face or as their responsibility.
Hey commentator, could you give the sisters approciation?
I really appreciated their actions.
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