After witnessing and being touched by the warmth and love of Cambodians, and after understanding their needs more deeply in the first Hope Journey last year, supporters of Hope Journey returned to Cambodia. This time, the team built in 3 communes - Char Roka, Kork Thnol and Kork Thnong - in Angkor Chum District, Siem Reap Province.

Hope Journeys are special travel involvement programs in various countries where Habitat for Humanity serves. It delivers the chance for participations to directly get involved in activi-ties and help bring real changes to families and communities. Additionally, it’s a trip where vol-unteers are able to openly learn and share cul-tures, and get deeply involved and connected with families and villagers. It is another special way of learning and committing to be part of the solutions to poverty housing through Habi-tat for Humanity.

Leading the team was Scot Sellers, he and his

family built 2 houses with Habitat Cambodia in Phnom Penh last year. Before leaving Cam-bodia, he and his wife, Keely committed to help the Water and Sanitation program in Siem Reap. They became a donor of one of our projects just before the year ended. Scot initiated the second Hope Journey build for 2013 composed of 16 members – himeself and wife Keely Sellers and their 3 children Ross, Kaitlyn and Alyssa, Christ and Judith Nolan together with their 3 children Joe, Jackie and Clare, Michale Kappaz, Babara Baltz, Robert Neighbor and Tara Noronha.

Before setting off to Siem Reap for their build, the team devoted their time to understand Cam-bodia’s past. They visited S21 and the Cheng Erk Killing Fields in Phnom Penh City. They also attended the welcome dinner. The dinner al-lowed the participants to appreciate the differ-ent Cambodian traditional dance. The younger ones joined the cultural dancers and learned a few moves.

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Improved Village Sanitation through 2nd Hope Journey

In Siem Reap, the team first built 3 toilets – 2 brick toilets and 1 wooden – for 3 home part-ners, Lat Nhan, Vai Pout, and Mann Aerv. “I’m very grateful to them (participants) for the help they extended to my family. From now on, my children and I will be able to finally use a toilet and never go back to the field again,” said Vai Pout, 36 years old, a mother of five children.

The team continued their mission by working on upgrading 3 ring wells for the use of families and villagers in Cha Rokar Community. “This well is very precious to my family and it can help us in many different ways like cooking, bathing and cleaning, and for watering our crops. I’ve waited for a long time and our new friends has made it possible for us and our neighbors,” shared Minh Pich, HFH Cambodia home partner, who also actively participated in the construction work.

Participants also visited Habitat project sites in Angkor Chum Siem Reap and home partners supported by the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene project supported by the Sellers. The visit al-lowed them to understand that access to simple and available water and sanitation can change lives of families in terms of livelihood and pro-ductivity, and significantly improve their health and living conditions.

Each day, the participants would travel about an hour and a half to the villages they serve in Ang-kor Chum. The build site was far from the main town of Siem Reap, but they knew that in order for them to help transform lives, they must serve where the need is greatest.

The final day of the Hope Journey build was

Team photo with home partners after building 3 toilets in Angkor Chum, Siem Reap

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spent alongside over 450 villagers and students of Kor Trakeit Primary School. It was set to be another busy day. They began working on the building and painting the fence for a school Aqua Tower, a water filtration system that can clean upto 10,000 liters of water. Some of them also prepared a new playground area and painted new monkey bars for the children. The younger participants also spent some quality time with the students by teaching them new games and learning new games from the chil-dren. Right after a picnic lunch break, the team joined HFH Cambodia, students and villagers in a Hand Washing and Hygiene Promotion. The promotion began with a parade coming from 2 villages. Participants divided themselves into two groups to joined two parades where 450 students and villagers throughout the com-munity came together to raise awareness on good hygiene and sanitation practice.

In the school, children and villagers were edu-cated about concepts of living healthily and were taught proper hand washing, nail clipping and tooth brushing practices. The participants

demonstrated proper nail clipping and hand washing amongst different age groups – chil-dren, parents and elders. The kids and villagers appreciated the simple but valuable efforts of helping them learn how to care fore themselves. It was a fun-filled learning day for the children and a heart-warming one for the team. At the very end of the program, the team celebrated the formal Inauguration of Aqua Tower in Kor Trakeit Village supported by the Sellers family.

“It was great experience and beyond my expec-tations. We learned so many things from Cam-bodia and life itself. We are amazed by how nice the people are and by the beauty of this Country. I’m glad that I am able to do this with my fam-ily, to help and to see all the beautiful children with a great chance to teach students something really important in their lives and to laugh and play with them,” shared Clare Nolan.

The last day in Cambodia, the team took the op-portunity to visit the ancient wonder of Angkor Wat.

Hope Journey is a great opportunity to learn, communicate and to relate with people who are deserving of support. It is one among the dif-ferent special builds and engagement programs

Habitat for Humanity has where participants can build strong relationship within the com-munities Habitat serves, and a chance to be a part of Habitat’s ministry.

“Hope Journey is one of my family’s favorite trips and this is our second Hope Journey trip in Cambodia Cambodia. We have a lot of incred-ible memories here and it’s our great fortune that we can come back to work with other team members and meet with different families. This year, we are very happy to be able to share the experience with more of our friends and even more home partners and community people. We are also happy to have met Thoun Visal again, one of our home partners from last year’s Hope Journey. He is now able to live with peace and happiness with his brothers and sister in their own house,” Scot Sellers said.

The 2nd Hope Journey is another collaboration between Habitat for Humanity Cambodia and Habitat for Humanity International. Tamara Foglio, Global Engagement Officer Jan Berry, Major Gifts Development Officer, both from Habitat for Humanity International also joined the mission trip. Scot Sellers became a member of the Habitat for Humanity International Board of Directors this year.

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Highlights

HFH Cambodia Strategic Planning Update

The second phase of HFH Cambodia 5-year Strategic Planning was conducted in Sihanouk Ville from 18 to 21 July with 22 participants from the Task Force and some representatives from each program and department.

On the first day of the session, the program units had the opportunity to understand strate-gy alignment tools, the Global Housing Indica-tor. The group also reviewed the HFH mission and the 5 principles and how to employ them in the HFH Cambodia context, and together be able to approach and accomplish the goals effectively and efficiency. The second day was devoted to the Annual Operations Plan where different activities including group discussion and presentation exercises were done allow-

ing everyone to actively participate. Some team building exercises were also inserted in the ses-sions.

HFH Cambodia team were appreciative for the chance to learn and contribute in the continued development of HFH Cambodia Strategic Plans. By the end of the session, the team was commit-ted to complete the survey of Global Housing Indicator and Market Mapping by the end of October 2013.

Mr. Chhun Sona, Program Manager of HFH Cambodia shared his thoughts, “The workshop was important for all to be on the same page in our next direction; we were able to share our ideas and learn new concepts from each other.

I believe with good plans, accurate strategies, clear understanding amongst all of us and a strong commitment, our plans will be achieved for the next five years.”

The workshop was facilitated by Sneha Sabu, Associate Director, Strategy Management and Almudena Bartayrés, Regional Program Direc-tor of HFH Asia Pacific also joined the sessions as part of her orientation to her new role in Asia Pacific.

After the successful development and planning sessions, everyone enjoyed each other’s compa-ny and made time for some relaxation, shop for seafood, and enjoyed the view of the beautiful beaches of Sihanouk Ville.

Global VIllaGe TeamS

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Viva Volunteers

Global Village Wrap Up

June 23 to July 07: A group of students from Moama Anglican Grammar School in Australia formed a team of 22 members who also worked in Vimean Trung Community, Phnom Penh. Foundations and some walls of two brick hous-es were completed during the build week. Aside from their build, volunteers took the opportu-nity to visit some significant places in Phnom Penh and in Siem Reap. While they were in Siem Reap, the team visited students in Krang Thnong Primary and provided food to 150 stu-dents.

June 30 to July 07: 20 members of Global Vil-lage team from Scotch College in Australia were inspired to help 2 families by building brick houses in Vimean Trung Community, Phnom Penh along with the families and skilled work-ers. The team worked on the foundations and some parts of the walls of the two houses were complete on the last build day. In additional to the construction work, the group of students spent their break time to teach English in a lo-cal English class in the village where 10 to 20 students attend everyday.

July 01 to 10: Foundations of the two brick hous-es in Prek Preah Sdach Commune, Battambang Province were completed along with some parts of the walls by 17 members of Global Village team from Konkun University in Korea. Dur-ing the build week, the Korean team also gave time to experience sites in Battambang. They also visited 13 Makara Primary School and do-nated loads of study materials and medicines to students and teachers. Their dedication was cel-ebrated with various enjoyable activities such as games, dancing and singing.

July 05 to 14: Water and sanitation significant-ly improve lives of villagers living in Angkor Chum District, Siem Province. Taking this op-portunity, a group of ten members from United States shared a spirit to support by coming to-gether to build and complete 2 brick toilets for Norkor Pheas Health Center. After days of hard work, the team, together with doctors, nurses, skilled workers, and local authorizes joined to-gether for a fun farewell. Patty O’Connel, GV

Viva Volunteers

Team Leader, understood the need to serve even in a distant site like Angkor Chum. She helped us educate her team members the essence of ‘serving where the need is greatest’.

July 07 to 12: This is a month of student volun-teer groups. Another is a group of Global Vil-lage team from Garden International School, Malaysia. The team consisted of 22 members who built homes, communities and hope for Cambodians in a relocation area, Trapaing An-hchanh Community, Phnom Penh. Due to their hard work, the team accomplished building one brick house and one wooden house for two fam-ilies in the village.

July 07 to 14: A big team composed of 41 stu-dents from 8 international schools joined to-gether in a trip called South Australia Lutheran School Mission from Australia for your commu-nity work. The team built 3 brick houses, and 2 new model houses in Trapaing Anhchanh Com-munity, Phnom Penh. After the completion of 5 houses, the volunteers invited skilled workers and home partners for a farewell lunch in the village right after and enjoyable and unforget-table house dedication.

July 15 to 17: After visiting historical places in Phnom Penh City, a Global Village volunteer team from Gyeonggi Academy of Foreign Lan-guages (GAFL), a Korean language high school, began their mission of building a home for fam-ily living in Pouk District, Siem Reap. At the end of build day, a group of students were able to finish building of one brick house and together celebrated in a farewell party with Khmer tra-ditional songs and dance after the sharing the experiences they gained during the week.

MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Volunteer with Habitat for Humanity Cambodia.

Be part of a Global Village volunteer team. Visit this site for more information:

http://www.habitat.org/gv/

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The bid announcement for the construction of 30 apartment units for the Smile Village Project in Komreal Village, Prey Veng Com-mune, Dangkor District, Phnom Penh, build site for Mekong Big Build 2013, was released on July 26, 2013. HFHC invite all firms to part-take in the bid for construction work. A bid briefing will be held on Tuesday, August 06, 2013 at 10.00pm at the national office. Bidders are expected to submit their proposals on August 20, 2013 at 2:30pm and will be invited to join the open-ing on the same day at 3:00pm.

The construction project for the Smile Village is the first ever multi-story and multi-unit apartment project of HFH Cambodia.

The Smile Village Master Plan

mekong big builds

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Special Feature

Upcoming events and

legal Holidays

01 augustPilot Test Home Improvement Products and Construction Technical assistance Training in Takeo

01 – 05 augustGlobal Village Team from Singapore in Phnom Penh

02 – 11 augustGlobal Village Team from United States in Siem Reap

12 – 21 augustGlobal Village Team from Japan in Takeo

17 – 24 augustGlobal Village Team from Japan in bat-tambang

19 augsutSanitation and Hygiene Training in Kandal

28 agustHIV/aIDS Care and Treatment Training in Kandal

29 – 30 augustStakeholders engagement Workshop on Housing micro-Finance to micro-Finance Institutions in Phnom Penh

Special Feature

As a daughter, mother, wife and a Project Officer, Tech Theavy seems to have quite a lot going in her daily life.

Theavy lives with her husband, two children and her mother. She usually gets up at 5am and begins her day by preparing food and cooking for the family. Their usual breakfast is fried fish or pork along with soup and rice. After cooking and packing food for their lunch and dinner, Theavy wakes up her two daughters, Soeun Sokun Rosa-10 and Soeun Sokun Panhyana-4 around 6am,and helps them get ready for school. Rosa is currently studying Khmer, English and Chinese while Panhyana is in a Kindergarten. Theavy quickly showers and gears up to send her children to their schools by 7am, and she makes it just in time for work by 7.30am.

At work, as a Project Officer for Phnom Penh Housing and Community Development proj-ect, Theavy constantly follows up and updates weekly plans, monitors and prepares for proj-ect activities and works on reports. Some days of the week, she would have field visits and missions to the sites with NGO partners to check, interview and follow up with families being served by the project. At lunch, she usually enjoys her packed food and share with other colleagues in the office kitchen.

Theavy leaves the office around 5:00pm or 5:15pm, and heads straight to her English class nearby the office to study from 5:30 to 7:30 in the evening. After her English course, she drives directly to Chinese school to pick up Rosa and heads back home. When Theavy is busy, her husband, Soeun Tony, helps in picking up their children from school. Tony is working with another international organization in Phnom Penh and often goes on mis-sions to the provinces.

As soon as Theavy and her family arrive home and are freshened up from their motorcycle ride, they all enjoy the food she cooked and prepared in the morning for dinner. Usually, after finishing her kitchen work, she would spend time checking and helping her children with their homework, and talk with her husband about the day that went by. To wrap up her busy day, Theavy prepares to sleep at around 10:30 pm.

a Day in life of a Project officer

HFH Cambodia welcomes Than Uddom, the new Construction Supervisor for Build-ing Homes Building Hope Project in Phnom Penh. Uddom brings with him years of expe-rience working with corporations and local NGOs.

Please contact Than Uddom at than_uddom@habitatcam-bodia.org

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