Wat Opot Children's Community

The paint was chipped and peeling on the first of our buildings, which was opened in 2001 as a Hospice for AIDS Victims. When we closed the hospice in 2007, we used the building to house our children… but it was never intended for childcare and sleeping in the same room, that your parents and [...]

3 July, 2009

For those of us not as gifted in the Arts, there was also something to do.
Backbreaking work in the HOT HOT Sun pulling up new rice to be replanted.

Everyone is expected to work including the young. In Communal Life there can be no sluggards and no time for goofing off!

Well it sounds good [...]

Friday 3 July, 2009

They finished the Dinosaur but I wasn’t sure where they were going with the rest of the painting… and neither were they.

They spent a lot of time evaluating and trying out different effects. How to do the babies in the pouch was especially difficult for them. They started with three but kept [...]

28 June, 2009

They drove nearly 100km to spend their Sunday morning with our children. Nearly 60 Cambodian Girl Guides and their leaders came out in two, 12-passenger vans, for a morning of activities.

They played games,

did some Arts and Crafts,

and read the children some stories.

And just before they left Mr. Sary answered [...]

A few months ago the Art Class started this wall painting but got stuck on how they wanted to finish it. Time went by and then the funds ran out and the mural became an eye sore. I asked what they needed to finish it and they said a new design and some paint. I [...]