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ENKOSA RIVER SCHOOL

We are all
very happy to welcome you all to Enkosa River School, Enkosa Buddhist Pagoda,
Siem Reap.

The School
is for ALL local children, teenagers and adults completely free of charge.

They come to
lessons 5 days a week to learn and improve their foreign language
skills...mainly the English Language...to give them better opportunities of a
good job in tourism in the future here or maybe work or study abroad.

1.        THE SCHOOL

Opened in
November 2010 and currently has 8 classes nightly and around 150 regular happy
students

ranging from
3 years of age to 30!

We employ 3
Part Time Khmer Teachers on a modest salary and rely on volunteer native
speakers...now 100 per cent English Native Speakers , usually students who stay
a week or two or sometimes fully qualified teachers who have some free time who
live in Siem Reap.

Educating
the students in a mature, interesting and fun way.

We receive
no funding from either the Cambodian Goverment nor the Local Siem Reap
Administration or any NGO's.

We TOTALLY
100% rely on donations, mainly small donations from tourists who visit the
Pagoda on their way back from Angkor Wat and some small donations from mainly
good hearted individuals from overseas.

We ALWAYS in
NEED of DONATIONS either, financial assistance for the everyday running costs (
e.g.   electricity, computer and internet
access for knowledge and lesson plans, water for the children, marker pens, ink
printer,books, pencils, crayons, first aid supplies, etc etc) and volunteer
helpers time.

Currently
our monthly running costs are roughly 270 US Dollars.

This breaks
down as such:

3 khmer Part
Time Trainer Teachers Salaries $30 each......$90

Electricity..Internet
Access Printer Ink PC's ...... $80..

water, marker
pens ink paper  exercise books etc...$70

Emergency
Monies...Repairs First Aid Supplies..Possible sickness of a pupil or volunteer
etc... $30 …This budget needs at least doubling as a recent event in the
emergency treatment and hospitalization of one of our regular and more
experienced volunteers, high lighted a problem that needs
addressing..Thankfully he is back with us Teaching and helping train volunteers
and some development work.

 THE School Moving Forward

 We have put our  TRUST IN BUDDHA , to help us improve the
facilities here for our beloved Children and Students.

Although
they receive  a very good basic and
beyond education in a safe, friendly, loving environment, truthfully our class
rooms are totally inadequate especially in the monsoon season, where classes
could only take place on dry evenings last year.

Also there
is no reason what so ever with the right structure that the Education our
Students receive, can and will be just as good if not better than any offered
by the fee paying English Language Schools for the Children of the elite here
in Siem Reap.

Now hopefully
sooner than later we want to rebuild the Class rooms providing spacious
comfortable inside class rooms on the second floor with a multi purpose meeting
and performance room, School office and modern toilets on the ground floor,
extended to 9 metres by 28 metres, the architects plans will be finished for
April 24th.

The cost was
$180 after a 10% discount..money we need to recoup quickly.

Once again
we would like to thank the wonderful students of Students Against Poverty Group
Huonville  High School Tasmania, for
leaving a cash donation of 1,400 Australian Dollars towards the new School’s
foundations.

The toilets
will also be a great help as possible sponsors at the moment have no decent
toilet facilities to use here, maybe needing to go back to their hotels when
with decent modern facilities here they may have had more time to get a feel
for our good work.

As you are
aware both materials and construction and labour costs here are very very low
compared to 1st World Countries.

2.        THE LIBARY

Built in
July 2011 mostly funded and supported by Students Against Poverty Group
Huonville  High School Tasmania.

It has been a
marvellous success helping all the students and volunteers to prepare
interesting lesson plans.

We currently have two
computers for student use and development, we need at least 2 more.

We are in
urgent need of more relevant English books especially 2 or 3  editions of up to date text books, The Mega
Goal Series, a major success in both Thai Government Schools and now the more
Modern Language Schools in Phom Penh swear by them, general English Language
reading material and also more Khmer books both for the little ones and
teenagers, are always appreciated.

More World
Maps are a PRIORITY.......Cambodian Children and most Adults have NO idea about
Geography...if they hopefully secure a good safe career in Tourism here, they
need to know a lot about outside of SE Asia.

3.        OUT REACH

There is also a REAL
NEED for more OUT REACH work in this Province, the local authorities regularly
displace small shanty squatter communities from here to the Countryside with
little regard for their children’s education or well being. Recently around 300
shanty businesses some thriving and their homes either side of the river
outside our Pagoda were dismantled and the families in the main resettled in a
new barren land village,Kontrok  8km from
Siem Reap where there is no School whatsoever and parents are expected to pay
gasoline or motor bike or tuk tuk fares for the daily 16 km return journey , as
the local authorities have not even given the displaced families any cash for
boats..this area will flood badly in monsoon, the massive well,(reservoir) is
already full..the chances of the kids parents funding these long school
journeys and fares are worrying.

On this
point along with another local small NGO on the invitation of a representative
from a local Bank , we are looking at ways in which we can provide some kind of
immediate Educational help and hopefully long term assistance. All these
projects will need funding.

Also we would like to
continue when financially feasible practical outreach projects such as  the well ( reservour) and water pumps and
labor  we provided in FEB 2010  at a small poor rural village, Ornlongkrahn
in Stoung District around 100 km from here in the direction of Phnom Penh,
totally funded by two kind Australians and an American for less than $1300.

We are very
excited about starting a new project here for local women, teaching them how to
sew, make and repair clothes and crafts...enabling them to earn money for their
families and pass their skills on. Making School uniforms etc. will help
massively the 400 children attending the very basic local school with only 3
Khmer teachers!

We
desperately need to build a basic work shop for the Sewing Cooperative and some
basic accommodation for English Language Native Speaking Volunteers to assist
at the School….as soon as possible.

Once again
our friend’s Students Against Poverty Group Huonville  High School Tasmania,

Have made a
1000 Australian Dollar donation to start work on a workshop for the Sewing
Cooperative but we will need more sponsorship and assistance.

As you are
aware both materials and construction and labour costs here are very very low
compared to 1st World Countries.

Finally with
the growing number of foreign tourists it is very important to secure a
training budget..so for example we could invite an NGO drama workshop to
educate the children that NOT all foreigners are NICE men ( or women), and
other relevant training and workshops for both the children and Khmer Teachers

So we have a
lot of good work to do

We are in
the process of producing proposals for all the Projects that Need Completing.

Thank you
for your friendship and help  ...you are
always welcome..on behalf of all our wonderful Children ..Orgun chran

   Your Kindest regards

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                        Yorn Chea  and all at Enkosa River School

 cdf 

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