Cambodian visitors to our school, Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
Next Tuesday two young Cambodian men, Chamroeun and Sovann, will be visiting our school for the day. Both are weekend employees at Open Book, one of our Cambodian Global Concerns, which has sponsored them to come to Singapore for a week of professional development, which includes visiting a few international school libraries.
They are available to speak to any classes about Cambodia in general, literacy and reading in Cambodia, and/or the history and politics of Cambodia, e.g., during the week Chamroeun works with the French organization Avocats sans Frontieres (Lawyers without Frontiers) on the Khmer Rouge trials, while Sovann is from Preah Vihar, where the fighting with Thailand is happening.
They will be based in the library and are willing to tell some Cambodian stories to those classes visiting for borrowing. They will also be spending time with Kalimah and Ernie, learning how we manage our book collection.
Open Book (Au Livre Ouvert in the original French –if you go to the page, just ask Google to translate the page for you), is the project of Catherine Cousins who runs an open library (Reading Room) for children on Street 240 in Phnom Penh. The charity also publishes children’s books in Khmer, French, and English (e.g., Frederick Lipp’s books) which our Grade 3 students are selling at the Family Breakfasts and other school events — and in the library.
Below is a photo of Margot in Open Book over Chinese New Year, picking up books for our Global Concerns projects.
