Lok Savun, Cambodian farm lands have been disappearing. People has sold and been forced to sell their land for other commodities--motorcycle, car, gas, cell phone, television, stereo system, Hennesy, white wine, etc... The sad thing is that these commodities will not last long enough... they are usually gone in a few years. By then the farmers and their kids will become homeless and landless. ======== In a message dated 10/7/2009 11:33:25 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
I have my 3 day visit in Cambodia last month. A lot of things have changes around Phnom Pehn. It’s difference from my last visit a little over 3 years ago. What I see now, there are many unfinished sky scrapper’s buildings, stand still, construction discontinues. Many developers of flats, (phteas la-veng) halted unfinished; there are a lot of sign to sale properties increased as “urgent sale”. At Veng Sreng street at Dang Ko, Chom Chao, Ta Kmao… Plove Tor Teng, Ang Snoul. In country side there are many poor people sold their farm to buy motor cycle or cars. The good one I see, there are 77 garment factories closed and almost 70,000 workers lost their jobs. --- On Wed, 10/7/09, Khoar Chev <[email protected]> wrote: From: Khoar Chev <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Building houses for families relocating from the Stung Meanchey dump site To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 8:09 AM Hi bang, it's a good news, it would be a better news if they can build more than 21 homes, there are 100 families had been evicted from that dump site, but it was the Cambodian government responsibily to do it. I think they are not going to build any more appartments or condos at that dump site anymore due to the world economic crisi right now, I saw hundreds and hundreds underconstruction homes and appartments were left unfinish in PP as well as in other province such as Takeo, Kg Som, Koh Kong and thousands of those around the Dongkor and Stung Mean Chey districts. BTW During my visit Cambodia in July, I barely located the location of my old house at Takhmau market, and could not find my farm house 2-3 KM east of Watt Kropeuha, there was no more Sras chhouk, no more beung kom phloak, I tried twice to look for the place but I was ended up at fmr Raung Chak Kao Soo Kong Lan Tzecho instead. I went to Lycee Takhmau but could not get in there because it was the 3rd day of BAC II exam. I was so sad as we passed by Longvek, it was almost empty, nothing left over beside a few blocks of old fence...how sad, I'll talk to you later. KC Khoar Chev ( Made in Cambodia ) --- On Wed, 10/7/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Building houses for families relocating from the Stung Meanchey dump site To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 7:29 AM Mr. Carter is a kind hearted man. ======== In a message dated 10/7/2009 10:14:55 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: PPP Wednesday, 07 October 2009 15:00 OU MOM Former US president Jimmy Carter is to visit young volunteers building houses for families relocating from the Stung Meanchey dump site, according to aid organisation Habitat for Humanity. With the help of 300 local and international volunteers, Habitat hopes to build 21 houses in five days at Oudong for 21 families from the former municipal dump site. The work is part of the Habitat’s Mekong Build 2009 project that will take place on November 15-20. The Outstanding Youth Group of Cambodia (OYG) are looking for young volunteers to take part. “We will recruit about three or four volunteers in each school so that we can get a diversity of people to work together,” said OYG member Bun Ang. Habitat resource development and communication officer Melissa Cronin said as well as the presidential visit, volunteers would engage in leadership and cultural exchange activities. “The former US President Jimmy Carter and first lady Rosalynn will visit the Oudong build site in Cambodia after the build to view the houses and meet the families and the volunteers that worked so hard to build them,” Cronin said. She said the first 10 readers of The Phnom Penh Post to contact Habitat may be eligible for a one-week volunteer sponsorship. To apply, contact Melissa Cronin on 092 763 257 or email [email protected] This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and mention this article. To be eligible, you must be Cambodian, aged 18-25, and willing to build houses in Oudong during the week of the project. No special skills are required. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" group. This is an unmoderated forum. Please refrain from using foul language. Thank you for your understanding. Peace among us and in Cambodia. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/camdisc Learn more - http://www.cambodia.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
