Greetings from the Wat Opot Community From a recent Facebook post by our Director Dara; -Due to COVID 19, the children are helping out around the property. Working hard to raise and feed animals which helps keep down food costs and also makes us money. Thank you, children, for your hard work. Because of Covid-19, […]
With the border completed, it was time for the final step, planting the flowers! It was not as nearly fun as I thought it would be…there were still so many rocks in the soil! I had to move a bucket with me so I had someplace to put the stones I dug out of the […]
After looking at the rock border for a few days, I wasn’t loving the look, it just seemed too symmetrical and plain. Hmmm, what about bamboo? YES! So, the rocks were carried back to their original place by the kids (who looked at me as if I was crazy) as I tried to figure out […]
So I thought that the next step would be buying flowers, but I quickly realized that the soil was hard and full of small rocks. It needed to be tilled and many of the rocks had to be removed before I could even think about planting. Enter eager helpers again! I would hoe a little […]
Walking to my door multiple times a day made me smile. The kids would come and look at their handiwork and comment on how pretty the new plants were. They wanted to help water them and just enjoy the beauty of nature. I would see the new planters and look at how nice they made […]
We get our liquid laundry soap in large tubs donated by Assistance Fund of Cambodia). We go through 2 large tubs every 6 months or so and the empty ones started to take up space in the laundry/storage room because I (Melinda) just couldn’t throw them away. A couple of them had been converted into […]
