| Chers amis de Kamboo Project,
Vous le savez tous: partout dans le monde, Corona domine l’actualité. Mais l’aide ne connaît pas ou ne tolère pas les fermetures, et c’est pourquoi les choses continuent à Kamboo Project sur le terrain – bien sûr dans le respect des conditions imposées par les autorités locales, qui existent également au Cambodge. Pour le moment, nous et nos importants partenaires locaux sommes tous en bonne santé et nous espérons que cela restera ainsi. Même s’il y a des restrictions, la vie quotidienne veut être maîtrisée, les problèmes veulent être résolus, les projets veulent être mis en œuvre et les bases d’un avenir meilleur doivent être posées. Beaucoup de choses se sont passées depuis la dernière newsletter en 2019. Surtout, notre plus grand projet à ce jour a été réalisé en coopération avec une entreprise industrielle de premier plan. Geberit Projet Social 2019 |
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| Dans la phase finale du projet, dix apprentis Geberit et leurs entraîneurs Stefanie Steiner et Michael Fischer sont venus à Siem Reap pour deux semaines en novembre 2019. Ils avaient beaucoup d’enthousiasme dans leurs bagages, le matériel et les outils avaient déjà été livrés auparavant. Ils ont installé de vastes installations sanitaires Geberit dans les toilettes de l’école et ont participé au programme d’hygiène pour les écoliers. Pendant deux semaines, il y a eu une communauté très étroite entre l’équipe Geberit et notre équipe Kamboo Project. Le travail intensif et exigeant sur site exigeait le meilleur de tous ceux qui sont impliqués chaque jour. Au travail, dans les loisirs variés, dans la rencontre des cultures. L’objectif le plus important a été atteint: créer de nouvelles installations sanitaires pour les écoliers sur place !. De plus, chacun a appris les uns des autres et emportera de nombreuses expériences avec eux dans le futur.
« J’ai trouvé formidable que nous puissions aider directement et pas seulement envoyer un don … Ici, nous étions sur place et avons pu aider immédiatement. Il devrait y avoir beaucoup plus de projets comme celui-ci », écrit Manuel Moser dans le blog Geberit Aquaclean. Un grand engagement de Geberit, merci beaucoup! |
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| WASH! Sustainable projects are not just created by handing over « hardware » that is urgently needed. It is at least as important to help establish knowledge, to sensitize for problems and solutions and to make a project come alive. Routine hygiene measures such as washing hands and brushing teeth are difficult to implement if the local environment does not offer the appropriate opportunities and role models. Such things also have to be learned and well anchored, and who is better suited to help than the teachers themselves? Our work in the Geberit Social Project 2019 has inspired us to develop the WASH hygiene program, which is intended to enable teachers to provide comprehensive hygiene instruction for school children. |
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| WASH stands for « Water, Sanitation and Hygiene » and includes a two-year curriculum that is intended to accompany the school day on a permanent basis. Everyone is involved, from the school authorities to the school children themselves and their parents. The practical level is as important as the theoretical one. School children and teachers set rules together, maintain the sanitary facilities and also clean them themselves. In developing the program modules we were supported by the two volunteers Julia Sauter and Martin Hofmann, who brought helpful know-how from their scientific positions in Germany. Many thanks at this point!
WASH will not only be carried out in the two schools of the Geberit social project, but is also to be implemented in as many other schools as possible. A doubly sensible approach in the age of COVID-19! To make this work, we use donations from private individuals. However, we also ask companies and foundations whether they would like to help an entire school with the implementation. |
| Clean water in Ta Ey We rarely realize the impact that access to clean water can have on our whole life. The elementary school in Ta Ey, not far from Siem Reap, shows clearly how many aspects of life are connected to water. Without the chance to wash regularly under hygienic conditions, without toilets that flush and drain to avoid the formation of infection sources, it is not even possible to attend school regularly. In Cambodia, teenage girls, in particular, suffer from such conditions; on average they miss one of four school weeks a month because they have to stay at home. |
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| Poor hygienic conditions not only make people ill, they also make even basic education difficult or impossible. In the school in Ta Ey, there are 300 boys and girls and their teachers, who urgently need functioning toilets and a supply of clean drinking water, just to have a basis for a good school education. Together with the Kleine Hilfsaktion e.V., which also provides its own funds, we started a crowdfunding (on crowdly.org) in December 2019, which in the end raised 2’620 CHF. Enough to implement the project and to bring things into a good flow. Many thanks to donors! |
| Dancing for a good cause Anyone can support, and even many small contributions add up to concrete help. The Christmas fundraising campaign of the SalsaOlé dance school in Wohlen in the Swiss canton of Aargau raised a full 2,000 CHF for the work of Kamboo Project. Unusual for aid projects, but typical for Kamboo Project, Tobias Burkart, who is part of the SalsaOlé team, was able to document the work that is being done in Cambodia with the help of such donations. To be close, to be concrete, authentic and verifiable, that is part of our work. |
| Welcome to Kamboo Project It is essential that we make it possible for the local people to work on the future of their society. One of these future workers is now Pin Somnang. The 20-year-old is currently working on her degree in tourism and hospitality at the USEA University and has recently joined the Kamboo Project team in Cambodia. « After my first experiences, I am looking forward to working at Kamboo Project and thus contributing to my society in the future, » Somnang tells us. Welcome to our team! Finally, let’s briefly turn back to the current situation. Will our projects, will the people in Cambodia feel the influence of the Corona virus? For sure. How exactly, is still difficult to estimate. What is also certain, however, is that a challenge like this does not make our work secondary, quite the contrary: we are creating the basis so that people can cope better with situations like this in the future. There is still much to be done. With this in mind, best regards from |
