Monday, August 4, 2008

Your own place

An advert in today's The Cambodia Daily offers 'Your own place in Cambodia for $13,000.' Posted by American Assistance for Cambodia, the add continues; 'And a very special place indeed - a schoolhouse with your name on it. Cambodia's education system was destroyed during the Khmer Rouge holocaust. Today, some 3,000 villages have no schoolhouse. Any donation will help Cambodian children receive an education. But for $13,000 an entire schoolhouse can be built, and there are now more than 428 schools in Cambodia bearing a benefactor's name. An optional addition of $2,000 for English/computer teacher and $1,700 for computer and solar panels.' The advert gives Bernie Krisher as the contact, he's also the publisher of The Cambodia Daily.
Their website explains it as follows: AAfC's largest project, the Rural Schools Project, has helped build over 400 enriched primary and lower secondary schools in rural Cambodia since 1999. In this program, donors sponsor the construction of a school in a village that currently lacks one. Donors pay US$13,000 for a school, with matching funds provided by the World Bank and Asian Development Bank, through partnership with Cambodia's Social Fund and Ministry of Education. After the school is constructed, donors are strongly encouraged to enrich the lives of students by funding improvments for their school. School improvements include English and computer teachers, computers powered through solar panels, Internet access through a satellite dish or GPRS system, a well or water filter, a school nurse, a vegetable garden, and a bookcase of books.

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