Cham Rang

rice farmer

Working girls

Back breaking rice planting

working hands

Rice farmer

cow bells

Cham Rung child

Cham Rung orphan

Lindsey's hospitality/english class

Hands game

Kitchen

Bathtub & Clothes washing vessel

Terry (Grandpa) + friend

This afternoon we traveled to Cham Rung, which is about 20 minutes drive outside of Phnom Penh.  There is an orphanage there that Cambodia’s Hope has gotten involved in supporting.  As you can see, on the way there, I got involved taking photographs of the rice farming.  Like elephants and monks, rice farming is easy to get carried away with photographing.  Everything about it is sumptious.  The soft green of the rice, the faces, the colors of the clothing, the wagons, the cows…….It is a visual treat.

The real fun started when we arrived at the children’s farm.  This is such an impressive orphange.  In some ways it is self-sustaining, in that they grow an amazing amount of food and have lots of cows, geese and chickens.  The farming is all organic and the crops are amazing!  Elizabeth is the Cambodia’s Hope volunteer who has been teaching English there, and she has fallen in love with the children and vice versa.  I sat in the the hospitality class that Lindsey and Elizabeth both taught today, and it was very exciting to see how devoted the kids are towards their studies.  It takes a lot of determination.  They only have electricity three hours in the evening.  I am looking forward to doing some more fund raising to help support them in their educational needs.  We took a group of Palm Tree kids to visit today.  They all had a big time playing together after the class.  We bought baguettes and condensed milk for them as a treat.  Thank you kids for the wonderful tour and for making Lewis and I feel so welcomed!

Tomorrow we are traveling up to Siem Reap with about twenty Palm Tree kids and a couple of the volunteers to tour the temples.  Stay tuned…..