Visit from Mira Scholars Team

1.       January 25^th, Family Care Cambodia hosted a visit from 4 members of the Mira Scholars team. Mira Scholars has raised funding to sponsor uniforms and a student teacher’s salary for our volunteer village school, and to install internet for our IT training program at a Rescue Shelter. On this visit the team accompanied us to Kampong Speu province to a volunteer village school where they assisted in a creative arts class. 

We went from there back to Phnom Penh Thmey where we spent the afternoon with the girls at CCPCR rescue shelter. Mira Team member, Antonia, led a beading workshop. The girls learned how to make lovely bracelets, hair clips and necklaces from beads and wires. It was great fun and the finished products were immediately put to use! We are continuing to train a small team of the older girls in making chains and beaded jewelry which hopefully can serve as a vocational skill and potential source of income in the future. Many thanks to Sara Ortega and the Mira Scholars!

In house uniforms for sheltered girls

     Ann Soldner writes….Having decent clothing for everyone to wear is always a huge need at a girls’ rescue shelter. Recently, with the proceeds from the sale of cuddle toys and cloth, handmade by the girls at the rescue shelter, we were able to purchase cloth for pants and blouses. During vocational training time, the girls designed, cut and sewed a new outfit for each resident! Some of the more experienced seamstresses made their own unique blouse designs. The results were lovely!

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Rural Education Update:

Family Care Cambodia sponsors teachers in our rural education program located at Phum Thnal Primary school in Siem Reap. Recently, Alex Soldner and wife, Ann, visited the school to meet with our staff of trainers and to award certificates to the students who completed their training course in Computer and English classes.

Soccer competitions

 Family Care Cambodia has organized sports training and both boys and girls soccer teams at a Siem Reap primary school. February is traditionally the month for competitions between the schools that have teams. Alex Soldner, Family Care Cambodia project manager, traveled to Siem Reap for the matches! It’s always an event the students look forward to. Besides the excitement of the actual competition, the students learn so many valuable life skills such as teamwork, leadership, good sportsmanship, camaraderie and how to handle success and failure. The old adage comes to mind, “It’s not about whether you win or lose, but how you play the game”. We’d like to especially thank the Harvey family for their sponsorship of the rural sports training program!  

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