In the week we were having a presentation about the other countries. My group get the Egypt country to do. What I learned during doing presentation and make a poster is helping each other. We need to work all together, not just one person do and another not. We need to manage that job, so everyone is know what they doing. After finished making a poster, we divided the presentation job. That mean, who speak about what topics on the poster. When I did the presentation, I did learned a lot of thing. There are, being flexible and not talk to talk again and again. Most of the time when we do the presentation there are conflict because we not have a good team work. But never mine my group don’t have any conflict. What the matter is, we understand each other feeling. Sometimes when they asking questions, I need to be commitment to answer because some questions I don’t know the answer and some of them are really hard. That teach me, if I said about one topic I need to clear what it mean and the reason of it. As a professional presenter we need to be clear and understand about our presentation. People will not understand what we mean if we not speak clearly and explain clearly. When we speak good and having some action, it help us to attract people feeling than just stand and speak.
The hardest point for me about this presentation is sometimes my group is not staying with each other. Some of them was busy to do something else. It hard to manage as being like a leader. Also when we research information, it is not enough for us to understand and the word is not for kids, most of them is for adult to read. But we was trying hard to translate and ask teacher.
Trip to Kampong Chhnang
Before we were going to Kompong Chhang, we prepared games, and questions and presentation for our activities.
Interviewing the families in the community
On the first day we went to the community to interview the families about their living. Most of the people at there are doing a saving group to save their money. Some of the people in that community are growing rice and making a basket. At that community they not do farming because it was really hard to take the water and the land don’t have enough nutrient.
The problem in the community was traffic, water and electricity. The members in some families was dead because of the traffic. What cause them having a accident was the animals and they don’t respect the traffic rules. As you know already in the community there are a lot of animals like dogs, chickens, cows and more.
The example of the accident in that community was the dog make one person dead. Because of the person drove the motor and not focus on the driving, it made that person crash with the dog and the person was dead because falling off from the motor. That person still dead even though that person wore the helmet. One lady I was interviewed says “ I was driving the motor with my husband and we saw the dog ran forward to us, and my husband can not stop the motor. Then I and my husband was fall down from the motor because of the dog. Luckily I and my husband don’t have a big injury” I was so happy to hurt that they don’t get any hurt but when I continues to lesson to the woman and she said at that time she not wear the helmet. That is really dangerous because they not wear the helmet. Others thing in the community was some of the people robbed the animals like chicken. But now the robbing event not so happen. In Cambodia, most of the families having a conflict with each other. But that is normal for Cambodian.
Visiting the Stupa
We drove to one pagoda at Derachan village to learn about the Stupa. We met one man, but he was so old just like our grandpa. He is the villager in this village. I think he knew a lot about the history of Stupa. Yes and I really sure that he knew a lot about history of stupa after I listened to him. The history was so long and I can not take the notes all about what he say. But I am understand and there some little notes in my book. The stupa is the place that put the dead person. The stupa that we visit is the place was putting 2 people, Pades and one more person(don’t know the name). Pades was a french that came to Cambodia and he take another people in his country to come to manage Cambodia at 1920. You can imagine what happened when another country come to manage your country. That is awful and really horrible. 1920 was the years that Cambodian become weak because of french. French had fight, take the tax from Cambodia and put the people in the jail if they not give the tax. Most people in Cambodia had had ran to the forest to hide because they don’t have enough tax for French. But Cambodian was discuss to fight back against the French but they don’t have enough chance. At 1925 was the years that Cambodian fight back against the French. During that time the people was running around and yelling. At last one grandma called Bee fought Pades. So Pades was dead and everyone in Cambodia having a happiness times.
Presentation from CPR
CPR is one organization that focus on HIV(Aid) living people. CPR is stand for Cambodia’s
Poverty Reduction. ( It is in my notebook) (Will be more soon)
Interviewing money saving group/observing
We went to one place that far from the city. We went there to interview the people about saving group. Most the people that go to saving group are women. They can put the money whenever they want. They get 5% of the interest of their money. That is really good because when their family have any problem, they just can take the money that they have in the bank to support their family. They also can borrow the money from the other people too. One woman said she do the job, so when the time to put the money, she can put the money that left from her job into the bank book. She really believe 100% to the saving group and in the saving there are no conflict happen. This saving group help people to save their money and to make their life better.
First aid teaching
So before we going on the trip, we have to learn how to cure the disease before we are going to teach the other people. We had a nurse facilitator to teach us.
I and my partner was teaching the community about first aid. We were teaching about fever. We prepared all the material and setup the presentation. We presented to the old people and their listened to us. During we did the presentation, we also show them the materials that they need when someone get fever. After we finished the presentation, we asked them some questions. They answer really well. But I afraid that they will not do as the lesson that I told them.
Presentation Reflection-Samady, Kanha
Our objective after we present to the community are:
1. Let them understand the disease is really dangerous for people. One small disease can become a big problem for their family.
2. Don’t let them spend a lot of money on the small sick because they can do by themselves, don’t need to go to the hospital.
3. Community will understand how to treat the sick that their family have. If they don’t understand, they will not treat and not bring the people to the hospital.
4. Sharing idea and knowledge to the other community to understand about the disease.
5. Don’t take other dangerous material to treat the cut, sick.
6. They can take care their family, themselves, and others.
Game
The game group also make the games for the children to play. Everyone was so excited to play. There are a lot of kids. We divided the children by group and let them play football and another group play games. So we can switch and every kids have chance to play the games that we have. We playing balloon games, racing games and more. It was so fun and I think the kids they work really hard. We also have the price for the kids that had won the game too and the price is one candy each. I know the price is weird. But this price is encourage them to have hard working in a team. After finished one group, we called another group to come and play the same games. First I am with the children who inside the house to play the game then second times I went to play football with all the kids. It was a fantastic trip!
Trip to the ministries
Not only going to Kampong Chhnang, but we also went to the two ministry in Cambodia such as Ministry of Rural Development and Ministry of Labor and Vocation Training. First time, they thought us that we are coming from a high school, like adults, but actually we are kids. We had listened to their presentation talking about how they develop the community and the problem that they need to solve. Cambodia poor because Cambodian need to rebuilt every things that was left after the Khmer Rouge.
Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training
I am really happy to go to Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training. We go there to learned about how they train the people to do the job and better skills. They mostly train about the agriculture and the this is important because mostly people in Cambodia do farming. It is easy for them when they know how to grow and protect their plants. There are short term and long term. Short term training are 7 month and anyone can join it like monk, students who are grade 7 up and other people that don’t have any work. The long term is only for students that graduate or grade 9 up. Also long term can be for the people who old(I meant not old that can not do anything). The partner that help to support this ministry are Japan company, and some centers. The centers they not giving the fund but they build the relationship with the ministry so they can do their project. I think that it for my reflection.
2. The Ministry of Rural Development
We went The Ministry of Rural Development and we’re happy to get new information from this ministry. This ministry working on a lot of thing to reduce the poverty in Cambodia at the countryside. They working on health, road, vocational training, and education. But there are a lot of ministry who working on this things. Example the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training, the Ministry of Education_this all are related and the same as Ministry of Rural Development. I think if they spent a lot of times with the same thing and same main idea_it is really hard and maybe they will spent a lot of money. Not only Cambodia that been experienced the war, there are a lot of countries like South Korea and Brazil. Korea is the country that been experienced the war like Cambodia. Everything had been destroyed. Except, Korea left smart people, however, smart Cambodian had killed in the war_especialy Khmer Rouge. This is one reason that why Cambodia are poor. The other reason is people in Cambodia are earn less and spent more. Example they have one motor. They want to buy the chillies and the chillies only costed 100 riel. They ride the motor to buy the chillies for 100 riel but they need to spent one motor, one hour and the gasoline. This ministry take the plan from South Korea and edit it into the new plan. This ministry mostly working with the rural area people.
They mostly work with the people at the countryside because they want to improve health, road, education and others for the people there. It take really long time for them to do this because it is not easy. Cambodia poverty rate is approximately 19% because of the war in the country. Especially Khmer Rough. Khmer Rouge had killed smart Cambodian. So in Cambodia there are less smart people. Most important part that Cambodia is still poor because the people didn’t know how to balance between the income and the expense. This mean when Cambodian get the income from their work, they still spend their money to the phone, computer, bike, motor and others modern stuff. Sometimes they spent their money to the thing that they don’t need too, example if their children getting wedding they will buy a lot of thing. Some of the resources they don’t need to buy, however they will buy as much as they can, even though they don’t need it. Even this still cause Cambodia to face the poverty that make people poor, Cambodia still have the place that have a lot of agriculture and the ancient towers, places that left from the past. Ministry had recommended us to be a good student, good child and a good person for Cambodian society.
Equitable Cambodia
There a guy that was our teacher’s friend. He was coming to present us about the organization that he worked in. What I learned from the presentation is about his organization called Equitable Cambodia. This organization is working on human rights and it a local organization. Their mission is to make an equitable development and being equality in Cambodia. In the organization there are a lot of plan for them to do, to make the people in Cambodia thinking really well. They have a lot of plan and the one that really interested is Family Dream project. It mean they help the people, family in the villages. The procedure is 1. Family planning, 2. Strategic Income Generation, 3. Well Child-Educated, and Family peace building. Also there are lesson to teach to the people in a village like Saving group, WHADA, Agriculture Development Association, Water User Group, Forestry community.
Sharation
So my friend and I had present about one of the topics for poverty. Click here, to see our presentation.
As I am one of the presenter for poverty, I got a free T-shirt of decreasing poverty in Cambodia. 🙂