Over the weekend Chhunly Bin made the journey from Phnom Penh to Roun Village. It was a long journey of eight hours on a bus and then another hour by dirt road on a scooter in scorching heat. We are very grateful to Chunnly for volunteering his weekend to go to Roun Village.

Chhunly met with the villagers and contractor to finalise the location of the wells. He was also able to talk to some of the people of Roun Village and we would like to share some of their stories. The first of those is Keo (pictured above).

Keo is fourteen years of age and lives in Roun Village with her two brothers and three sisters. Her mother and father farm cassava (tapioca) and rice to support her family. She is very worried about her family this year because there has not been enough rain to supply her family's rice field.

Keo says. ‘I have trouble getting water every day’. Very early every morning she carries two big plastic bottles to get water from a canal five kilometres from the village.

‘I think this project is very important for my village’, Keo says. ‘There are a lot of people from the village that must go to the canal every day to get water”. She is very appreciative to the supporters of the project, ‘I thank you a lot for caring about the people that live in my village’.

‘In the future, I hope I will not have to walk a long distance every day to get water. I hope my village will have enough water for everybody’, Keo shares. She also hopes that one day she can go to school and that the school will get the materials it needs to teach students.

Lastly she wants to say, ‘Thank you very much again to the donors of this project’.