Girl #35 - Roth

Sponsor: The Shana Alexander Foundation

Location of the school: The Sapporo Acasia Lions Club, village Kor Hoksep, Trapaing Chress commune, Koun Mom district, Ratanakiri province

Girl student: Her name is Seng Srey Roth. She is eleven years old. She was in the third grade. She stopped to go to school in mid-2005.

Why we are sponsoring the girl: Her father, Maok Pel, 40 years old, is a farmer. Her mother, Bun Roeun, 41 years old, is a housewife. She is always sick, on heart problem. In 2002 she was admitted as a poor patient in Ratanakiri province, supported by the Telemedicine project (is a part of the program of AAfC/JRfC). She got the treatment in Phnom Penh and still gets medicine from the Sihanouk Hope Center Hospital (SHCH).

Srey Roth has two brothers and one sister. In the family her father is an only person who can work and get income for the family. He works alone on the land of one hectare. He does not have any buffaloes for helping him in the farm. The family does not have enough rice and food. The father must go into the forest and find a kind of tree that he can extract it resin for selling. He gets 20000Riels (=$5) per week.
In this problem that Srey Roth must at home and does all housework and sometimes helps her father in the farm or forest.

Now her parents understood and willing to send their daughter to school. Srey roth is very happy for returning to school.

Support: We pay her family $10 a month for perfect attendance.

Reported by Tiann Monie
Date posted: October 23, 2006