Community Open Day

Following a visit from Rachael, conversations about the model school Chey Oudom which has been developing in Phnom Srok and enthusiasm to work together, Rachael and I have collaborated on begetting the idea of a Community Open Day at the school in order to raise the profile of the school amongst the community and increase the community involvement. It was also to celebrate the fact that Chey Oudom has become a much more Child-Friendly school in recent months.

Rachael and her VA did all the hard work in facilitating the initial meetings where the ideas for a Community Open Day were born. The Phnom Srok DOE and the school Director and key Community members then took the ideas and ran with them, culminating in a very successful day. It was really good to hand over to Rachael , who in turn handed over to the school and community themselves and it was a real team effort helped by the relationship I've already sustained with the school and community and also by Rachael's facilitation and visionary skills and experience with working with communities in the past.

The DOE and particularly the school worked incredibly hard at preparing the school before hand which included building and planting gardens, selling the wood from an old classroom building in order to buy the materials needed to create new toilets for the students and teachers, designing new learning spaces, and displaying examples of different lifeskills special to Phnom Srok.

More on the way, including photos!