1987 THA-Cambodia New village school in Kompung Chan
austraLasia #1987
SIHANOUKVILLE: 21st November
2007 -- The Don Bosco Foundation of Cambodia, thanks to its
benefactors, opened
a new village school in Kompung Cham last weekend. The Koh Roka
Village, Kompung Seam District, Kompung Cham Province, was inaugurated
by the Dutch benefactors who provided the building for six classes,
repaired the kindergarten, the electric lines and provided for
drinking water. The total budget of this new educational work for the
children of Koh Roka was USD 34,000. The works were overseen by Father
Gerard Bogin, the Kompung Cham Parish priest. The benefactors were a
group of Dutch businessmen, HENGELO, who wanted also to pay homage to
the 50th Anniversary of Father John Visser as a missionary in
Thailand and Cambodia. Father John Visser is himself Dutch and is
currently the country representative of the Don Bosco Foundation of
Cambodia. The ceremony was attended by four of the Hengelo group who
wanted to come to Cambodia and see the works, and by Father John
Visser,
Father Gerard Vogin, Bishop Anthony Susairaj, Apostolic
Prefect of Kompong Cham, five staff of the Don Bosco Children Fund,
local authorities and the community of Koh Roka Village. The
children also received some gifts from the Dutch benefactors consisting
of sweets, and study material. But the story of those gifts have an
origin in Germany. Mister Ronald Nijkrake, one of the Dutch
benefactors,
attended the wedding of a friend's daughter in Germany before coming to
Cambodia for the opening of the school. When he said to the people
gathered for the wedding that he was going to an Asian country to give
a
school to children, people gathered USD 500 for them. In this way, 300
children of Koh Roka got something from these German
benefactors. "We are happy that a new Cambodian village has its school
on the way to best development", said Father John Visser. _________________ AustraLasia is an
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