Blue Bird Education Cambodia
Activities 2020
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Greeting to vice mayor and chair of city assembly of Shimonoseki City.
A leaning center for citizens.
Greeting to vice mayor and chair of city assembly of Shimonoseki City.
January
Royal School of Administration in Cambodia has launched a project to send out their trainees abroad to study administration systems in foreign countries. BBE, together with other cooperating organizations, supported this project in Japan.
The Cambodian delegates visited Shimonoseki city government office building, some city-operated facilities (garbage plant, fire department, animal welfare center and more), and Yamaguchi prefectural government office building to learn local government’s projects for the society.
The delegates also had a chance to experience Japanese culture and unique sceneries of Yamaguchi.
We prepared some souvenirs for them.
In Cambodia, Pchum Ben is coming up and now is the time to bring offerings to temples.
We prepared some souvenirs for them.
September
Due to Covid19, school have been closed and gatherings with a large number of people have been regulated in Cambodia. Now we were finally able to go to see our foster children after about 10 months since we did last!! We have child the sponsorship program in 3 provinces, but first of all we visited those in an island of Kratie.
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This time, in order to know more about the foster children, we interviewed them what they liked. And we asked them to actually write down. Children are not accustomed to writing, but they can try and start to write short sentences. Volunteer students taught them how to write.
As BBE, we selected children who understood well about the theme of "peace", and those who are somehow talented, such as mixing colors to draw and creating a lot of stories in a picture.
Back in January this year, primary school children in Battambang participated.
shoes and sportswear
As BBE, we selected children who understood well about the theme of "peace", and those who are somehow talented, such as mixing colors to draw and creating a lot of stories in a picture.
October (1)
From the end of last year to the beginning of this year, we joined a peace-themed art competition sponsored by another NGO and collected children's drawings with the cooperation of local primary schools and an orphanage.
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The judgement of art works was delayed due to covid19, but the result finally came out this summer. Three Cambodian children were selected (not as main prizes, though) from more than 300 participants in the world.
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We selected some winning works as BBE, within Cambodia, too. We saw children trying their best to draw while most of them were not very familiar with drawing, and we can evaluate such a point. And we had award ceremonies this month.
This orphanage has 2 centers in Battambang, and we visited the center 2.
Usually they eat together here, but during covid19 confusion, they close the dining room.
This orphanage has 2 centers in Battambang, and we visited the center 2.
October (2)
We visited an orphanage that Cambodian government runs.
In Cambodia orphanages are usually operated by foreign charity organizations. Over here family connection is very wide, and after parents or grandparents are gone for any reason, children left behind can live with remote relatives or live in a temple. Local administration helps arrange this. And as another option with foreign support, there is an orphanage.
Speaking of “run by the government,” this orphanage was originally run by a French NGO. But this NGO withdrew from the operation because of financial difficulty or something while leaving children there. And hence the government has taken over.
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Hope we can support children here to some degree in the future…
Newly built last year with charity support. We donated some books here.
With teachers of the school.
October (3)
We donated picture books with Cambodian translation to a primary school… one school for now. Those books are what we have been used for storytelling in picture-story show style. When we started a reading project, Cambodian volunteer students translated these books for the purpose of social service as well as for the aim to improve their English skills.
Of course, it is not for a commercial use or to widely distribute in the public. The school where we donated this time has a library, which was newly built by charity organizations last year. We hope the library can be utilized even more, and children can get to know more stories and get benefits from reading more and more.
