Blue Bird Education Cambodia
Activities 2022
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Crossing the river by ferry from Phnom Penh.
Crossing the river by ferry from Phnom Penh.
January
Royal School of Administration (RSA) has a project for primary schools in 2 districts of Kandal province. Teachers are invited to a national-level model school in another province to learn some ideal education systems and ideas so that they can apply those into their own schools.
As the part of the project this time we visited 2 target schools together with RSA personnel and advisor to Ministry of Education in order to give more practical advice. Many schools are struggling to improve their educational environment only with ideas. Thus we had a time to discuss together how to solve fundamentally.
We urged teachers to reaffirm their missions as educators and to work together to build trust with children's parents and society. Also, the advisor to the Ministry of Education provided guidance for mental and courtesy training for children.
Crossing the river again
Reporting from schools
Crossing the river again
February
We visited Lvea Aem in Kandal.
We sought for some practical actions to enhance educational systems in primary schools, together with educators, local authorities and monks. It was nice to see some cooperative relationships established among them after the meeting.
Speaking of monks, they are significant figures in communities. There is also a history that learning started from temples, and so the relationship between school and temple is inseparable.
After listening to reports from representatives from school districts, we also made suggestions on practical educational methods, cooperation with children's families, and establishment of trust from the community.
April (1)
BBE visited our foster children in Kratie.
Four countries along the Mekong River, including Cambodia, have their own new year in April. To children, we introduced a habit to send greetings on seasonal occasions in their foster parents’ countries. And we asked them to make a new year card.
Rural children have little opportunity to do a craft: touching color papers, holding them, cutting them with scissors and pasting them with glue. They did try and error, and still enjoyed each of those tasks and finally made pretty works. We believe they learned a lot from the program.
for the first time in a while…
Getting busier with people
for the first time in a while…
May
We are following up some iodine deficiency disorder (IDD) patients in Kratie. Welcoming a medical doctor from Japan, we visited village by village to checkup those patients, as well as other diabetes and outpatients, in Koh Chreng island.
As covid restrictions have been relaxed to enter Cambodia, one Japanese doctor, who has been contributing for some health problems in the country, visited Cambodia after more than 2 years of interval. Village by village we visited around target IDD patients to check them up, and consulted and treated other diabetes and outpatients.
For diabetic patients, we were able to monitor their blood sugar level for more than 24 hrs this time. This helped us to provide an accurate guidance for each individual.
June
We visited schools in new areas this time and worked with children there to make drawings.
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The theme was the global peace. We reminded children that the peaceful society, peaceful world is our wish as humanity. They tried to think what the peace means to them, how they can describe happiness, which colors and what kind of actions they can express it through.
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It seems it was still not easy for most of them to expand imaginations but the majority were willing to draw anyway. They enjoyed to think and draw, exploring such new experiences.
The river gets blue.
The river gets blue.
August
Crossing the Mekong River, BBE met our foster children in Kratie. This time we had 3 language programs to foster descriptive and creative abilities.
We always aim to conduct activities to cultivate children's writing ability, expressiveness and creativity, not only distributing supporting money. It's our hope and mission to foster good citizens who can contribute to and lead the society and the nation well.
All these activities were new and a bit difficult for the first glance for them, who live in the rural area. Still, we expect that this became another opportunity for them to learn new ways of thinking, to see things differently.
in a remote area
Commune council members helped the desk.
Many local youth helped the service activity.
in a remote area
November (1)
BBE carried out a medical service with a medical group from Japan and the US. Besides general free treatment and free medicine, we continuously aim to improve iodine deficiency disorder, hypertension, and diabetes in this target community.
Professional volunteers worked with the foreign doctors while local medical staffs and the youth from the community were also willingly involved in the service project. How to test blood sugar and urine (how to use testing equipment) was introduced to local nurses so that they can detect diabetes patients among the residents at an early stage and can start to take care of them properly.
In addition to lifestyle-related diseases, we treated a lot of cases of fatigue and headache, which may be caused by nutritional deficiencies and of orthopedic ailments assumed to be caused by agricultural labor.
Prepared for as many children as possible who made efforts to draw.
A bag he won for his drawing.
Prepared for as many children as possible who made efforts to draw.
November (2)
We had an award ceremony at 2 primary schools that joined an international children’s art contest this summer.
From Cambodia 5 children’s drawings were accepted internationally. Meanwhile, we domestically selected more children to award since we know how much many of the participating children enthusiastically worked on for this program and actually we can see beautiful ideas that they tried to express in their drawings.
While recognizing children’s artistic expressions and its value, we intended to remind them of the meaning of peace and happiness, how to behave to make the society peaceful.
