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The Cambodia Rural School Project
The Freshfields School
Som Chrean is thirty-four years old. He has five
children, with two at his school. He graduated teacher school at
Kampot when he was fifteen, in 1986, and began teaching. In 1988 he
was appointed deputy director, the position he’s now currently
holding. Because the school is very large, he does not teach himself,
but leaves that up to the other sixteen teachers.
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On the new building: |
“Before, I used to teach under a tree. Now, I don’t
need to. That makes me very happy. It also makes the villagers
happy. We all know that we would never be able to build such a
school ourselves in our lifetimes, no matter how much we saved. Not
even if our fathers and grandfathers also saved.”
“When the school was first built, and the tiles on the roof were
new, we could see the roof from far away, red and shiny. It was
beautiful.” |
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On students walking to school: |
“The children that live the farthest away still only
have to walk about 20-30 minutes to get here. It’s about two or
three kilometers away.” |
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