PSE blog – Summer 2019

kind of activities, adapted to their different characteristics and capacities. But what they love the most are the outings: to the swimming-pool, the vocational center, to Oudong, to the cinema, to the rehabilitation center… Everything is done to make them forget their daily life, mainly consisting in going to school and, sometimes, only going to school because of their limited capacities.

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An hour far from PSE headquarter, hidden in the middle of Kean Svay’s jungle, Kean Svay being a South-East district of Phnom Penh, there is a very new, very small place built less than 6 months ago: Paillote III. 

Last summer, a whole village kicked out of the land they were living on has been helped by PSE, both to get the children busy during the summer and to help the families rebuilding their houses thanks to the 2018 Construction project. And a few months later, these same kids are welcomed in a very new daycare center whose blue walls and roof are synonyms of education, safety and stability for the families.

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Aranh is one of the most recent projects, created just two years ago and located in Siem Reap’s province. Although it takes fourty minutes every morning for the monitors to arrive there, the journeys by truck are not an issue for them.. It is another fun moment during which all of the monitors, European and Khmers, sing and cheer up themselves.

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Siem Reap is a program located more than 300 kilometers away from Phnom Penh. PSE’s objective when opening a center in this region was to allow students to live in an area where finding work would be easy enough. The Center is also quite close from the villages of Prey Thom and Cotchock, both extremely poor and close to a dumpsite.”Everything started for the same reasons than in Phnom Penh, with the same needs: to educate the kids, to get them out of the misery they live in, to follow up these families”, explains Carlos the European coordinator of the program. For all these reasons, the center became essential to the area.

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Created from scratch in 2015, Smile Village is a community that has been co-founded four years ago by PSE and a Singaporean NGO, Small Steps. Their project was to provide families with a new place to live because they could no longer live in their old houses due to floods. Small Steps was taking care of all the hygiene facilities while PSE built the Community Service Center to welcome and educate children while their parents were working. Despite all the efforts made by both NGOs, numerous parents are still working on the dumpsite and it is not rare to see children sewing bags for the garbage pickers. “If there weren’t the Summer Camp, I would help my mom sewing the bags” says Seangly, one of the little girls from the community.

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If there is one common point to youth people from all over the world it definitely is teenage. That time of their life when they don’t know what to do with their changing body, with their emotions, even with their age as they no longer are kids, but they are not yet adults either. They do not know how to apprehend their future and how to interact with people. It’s a period of life during which these adults-to-be lose all their groundings. To help the 14-to-19 years old Cambodian teenagers going through all of these questionings, PSE set up a specific project for the Teenagers within the School Continuity Program.

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OBK is the paradise for these “little monkeys”, as the monitors affectionately call them. A colourful place where kids can play, jump, climb, dance and enjoy lots of activities with their friends.

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The work done by the Dental team within the School Continuity program is crucial. Indeed, children have many oral health problems that can be really harmful to them. That’s why a team of dentists and dental students is set up during the summer. As the specialists in kids’ smiles, they not only participate to the different project’s activities – such as the showers when the children arrive, but they also have their own missions as the job done at the clinic -treatments and care – or the sensitization workshops.

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Among the kids taken care of by PSE, there’s some whose families live too far away from Central PSE in Phnom Penh, some whose families are not safe enough to let the children live with them and some others who don’t have their families anymore. Those kids are pensionnaires – boarders – at PSE, meaning they live in the safe and secure environment of PSE the whole year long. And for them, a custom-made project is created every summer.

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The construction project is a fundamental part of the School Continuity Programs. This very specific program consists in rebuilding the houses of families who cannot afford it and who live in inhumane conditions. “Through the Construction camp a lot of support has been provided to families whose houses were deteriorated because they needed to be rebuilt or repaired”, Bo Phearak, Khmer monitor for the construction project for the second year.

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