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Significance of prizes
The internationally selected child also had only a certificate because it was not a big prize. With the advice of the locals, we prepared...
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Oct 3, 20201 min read
Art competition
From the end of last year to the beginning of this year, we participated in a peace-themed art competition sponsored by another NGO and...
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Sep 20, 20201 min read
Experiences have begun to take shape
We’ve received crayons and colored pencils as a donation, so I thought I should bring those next if children like to draw. When asked,...
bluebirdssoar
Sep 19, 20202 min read
What do you like?
I interviewed each of our foster children on the island. I asked them what they like so that we can refer to it when we could bring...
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Sep 9, 20201 min read
Pchum Ben
Cambodia is now in the season of Pchumben. This is exactly like Bon festival/Obon in Japan, a Buddhist festival to honor the spirit of...
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Sep 8, 20201 min read
Preparing to visit children after 10 months
We couldn't go to see our foster children this year due to the covid-19 confusion. Schools were closed from March, and interstate traffic...
bluebirdssoar
Dec 14, 20191 min read
Reading and creativity
A literature teacher came to Cambodia from Japan. We visited together to a school that possesses a library (library room/ space) so that...
bluebirdssoar
Nov 3, 20191 min read
Getting used to?
We visited our foster children. We take photos of the children every time in order to report their parents abroad. Each one of them...
bluebirdssoar
Sep 14, 20191 min read
Food education again
We taught our children about food nutrition. Devising food into 3 main groups: red, yellow, and green, we explained how each color group...
bluebirdssoar
Sep 8, 20191 min read
Unbalanced nutrition
We conducted a survey to these children about their eating habit. Although nutrition they are taking from daily meals is low, we found a...
bluebirdssoar
Sep 7, 20191 min read
Reading-book promotion efforts (2)
An experience to use art materials is also limited for children in rural areas. So we prepared big drawing papers and color pens for each...
bluebirdssoar
Sep 6, 20191 min read
Reading-book promotion efforts (1)
We visited a school in Prey Veng. Among schools in Cambodia, although having a library, sometimes their books are covered by dust because...
bluebirdssoar
Jul 18, 20191 min read
Practical skills
The volunteer group taught some practical skills to secondary school children. At schools in countryside and remote areas especially,...
bluebirdssoar
Jul 17, 20191 min read
Star Festival in Cambodia
A volunteer group from Japan visited children in Takeo. They proposed they'd like to share Japanese Tanabata (star festival) culture with...
bluebirdssoar
May 11, 20191 min read
Handmade tropical soap
Education of washing hands is not easy to become a habit unless people realize it’s importance or unless clean water is available. This...
bluebirdssoar
Apr 23, 20192 min read
Messages from a book
When we give some readings to children, we are not particular about a message that the book contains. Certainly there exist universal...
bluebirdssoar
Apr 21, 20191 min read
Bring their imaginations into drawings
In the elder children’s sentence-making game, we also asked them for some writings. We asked them to write which words they drew and what...
bluebirdssoar
Apr 19, 20191 min read
Creative sentence-making
For elder children, we introduced a game to make up a sentence from random words. Each child draws 2 cards from a word card deck, and...
bluebirdssoar
Apr 17, 20191 min read
Express with color pens
After we read a story, we talked about the story in a group. And we asked children to write about the story. It’s not a reflection. It...
bluebirdssoar
Apr 15, 20192 min read
Book-reading in Cambodia
It was one of precious opportunities to meet our foster children, so we also carried out some language programs at the same time. For...
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