Photo Gallery

PHOTOS FROM THE OPENING DAY OF THE FIRST THREE
RURAL SCHOOLS IN PREAH VIHEAR, CAMBODIA,
NOVEMBER 4, 1999

Cambodia's King Sihanouk receives donors at the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh.

Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk receives donors at the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh on November 5.
Left to right: Chum Bun Rong, General Director of the Social Fund which works in partnership with Japan Relief for Cambodia/American Assistance for Cambodia to construct the schools with World Bank matching funds; Prof. Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Laboratory (donor of the second school); Mrs. Wakako Hironaka, member of Parliament of Japan (donor of the first school); Messrs. Jiro Akiyama and Isao Agawa (standing behind King Sihanouk) representatives of the Shintoshin Rotary Club in Shinjuku, Tokyo (which donated the third school), Mrs. Akiko Krisher, vice-chairman of JRfC/AAfC; Douglas Schlemmer, Cambodia-based program director of the rural school project and Bernard Krisher, chairman of JRfC/AAfC.

Preah Vihear school under construction
and
First rural school in Preah Vihear completed
(Wakako Hironaka school)

Cambodian children study under the tree without school	Preah Vihear school under construction
Preah Vihear school under construction	First rural school in Preah Vihear completed (Wakako Hironaka school)
First rural school in Preah Vihear completed (Wakako Hironaka school)	First rural school in Preah Vihear completed (Wakako Hironaka school)
Prof. Nicholas Negroponte, Director of The MIT Media Lab tells children to clap in unison. At right is Cham Bun Rong, General Director of The Social Fund. From left are other school donors, Messrs. Asao Agawa and Jiro of the Shintoshin Rotary Club of Tokyo; Mrs. Wakako Hironaka, member of the Japanese Parliament and former Minister of The Environment.	School children standing in front of their new five-room school, The Wakako Hironaka School in Robieb village, Preah Vihear Province.
Children look at the computer in their new school	Mrs. Wakako Hironaka cuts ribbon at opening of her school. Mr. Asao Agawa and Jiro Akiyama (Shintoshin Rotary Club of Tokyo) and Prof. Nicholas Negroponte at her right.
Children rush to see helicopter take off with donors of their school	Children get their first computer lesson
Air view of the Shintoshin Rotary Club school in Rik Reay village in Preah Vihear	Mrs. Hironaka watches a pupil at her school type for the first time on the computer's keyboard.


Other photos show the school before opening as the children still study outdoors without a roof	Students and parents at the opening ceremony which the donors attended.
Bernard Krisher teaching a student how to handle a mouse on the new Macintosh donated to the school by Apple-Japan.	Sign above the Wakako Hironaka School, the first of 200 such schools to be built in rural Cambodia.	Pupils peer into classroom window in wonderment at the computer they have never seen before.