CONSTRUCTION – A NEW DAY, A NEW CHALLENGE

Every year, PSE carries out a construction project aimed at repairing or rebuilding houses in the most remote or poor areas around Phnom Penh. Different volunteers come to work for a week at a time – a week away from their initial sub-programme – and help Cambodian families have one of the most basic human needs: a roof over their head.  Although, like other sub-programmes, the ultimate goal is to help the families and their children to have a better life, the running, structure and outcome of this camp is completely different from the rest.

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LYHEANG HENG: FROM SELLING ON THE STREET TO WORKING IN A 5 S HOTEL

Lyheang Heng is a coordinator this year for PSE’s Teenager summer continuity programme in Phnom Penh. The job could not be better suited as some of the teenagers taking part have had the same impoverished and rough background as him. He is and will always be an inspiration for the Cambodian youth who has grown up without dreams of a good job or hope for a descent future.

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