austraLasia #1987
SIHANOUKVILLE: 21st November 2007 -- The Don Bosco Foundation of Cambodia, thanks to its benefactors, opened a new village school in Kompung Cham last weekend. The Koh Roka Village, Kompung Seam District, Kompung Cham Province, was inaugurated by the Dutch benefactors who provided the building for six classes, repaired the kindergarten, the electric lines and provided for drinking water. The total budget of this new educational work for the children of Koh Roka was USD 34,000. The works were overseen by Father Gerard Bogin, the Kompung Cham Parish priest. The benefactors were a group of Dutch businessmen, HENGELO, who wanted also to pay homage to the 50th Anniversary of Father John Visser as a missionary in Thailand and Cambodia. Father John Visser is himself Dutch and is currently the country representative of the Don Bosco Foundation of Cambodia. The ceremony was attended by four of the Hengelo group who wanted to come to Cambodia and see the works, and by Father John Visser, Father Gerard Vogin, Bishop Anthony Susairaj, Apostolic Prefect of Kompong Cham, five staff of the Don Bosco Children Fund, local authorities and the community of Koh Roka Village.
The children also received some gifts from the Dutch benefactors consisting of sweets, and study material. But the story of those gifts have an origin in Germany. Mister Ronald Nijkrake, one of the Dutch benefactors, attended the wedding of a friend's daughter in Germany before coming to Cambodia for the opening of the school. When he said to the people gathered for the wedding that he was going to an Asian country to give a school to children, people gathered USD 500 for them. In this way, 300 children of Koh Roka got something from these German benefactors. "We are happy that a new Cambodian village has its school on the way to best development", said Father John Visser.
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SIHANOUKVILLE: 21st November 2007 -- The Don Bosco Foundation of Cambodia, thanks to its benefactors, opened a new village school in Kompung Cham last weekend. The Koh Roka Village, Kompung Seam District, Kompung Cham Province, was inaugurated by the Dutch benefactors who provided the building for six classes, repaired the kindergarten, the electric lines and provided for drinking water. The total budget of this new educational work for the children of Koh Roka was USD 34,000. The works were overseen by Father Gerard Bogin, the Kompung Cham Parish priest. The benefactors were a group of Dutch businessmen, HENGELO, who wanted also to pay homage to the 50th Anniversary of Father John Visser as a missionary in Thailand and Cambodia. Father John Visser is himself Dutch and is currently the country representative of the Don Bosco Foundation of Cambodia. The ceremony was attended by four of the Hengelo group who wanted to come to Cambodia and see the works, and by Father John Visser, Father Gerard Vogin, Bishop Anthony Susairaj, Apostolic Prefect of Kompong Cham, five staff of the Don Bosco Children Fund, local authorities and the community of Koh Roka Village.
The children also received some gifts from the Dutch benefactors consisting of sweets, and study material. But the story of those gifts have an origin in Germany. Mister Ronald Nijkrake, one of the Dutch benefactors, attended the wedding of a friend's daughter in Germany before coming to Cambodia for the opening of the school. When he said to the people gathered for the wedding that he was going to an Asian country to give a school to children, people gathered USD 500 for them. In this way, 300 children of Koh Roka got something from these German benefactors. "We are happy that a new Cambodian village has its school on the way to best development", said Father John Visser.
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AustraLasia is an email service for the Salesian Family of Asia Pacific. It also functions as an agency for ANS based in Rome. For queries please contact admin@bosconet.aust.com . Use BoscoWiki to be interactive. RSS feeds - subscribe to www.bosconet.aust.com/RSS/rssala.xml Avail yourself of the Salesian Digital Library at at http://sdl.sdb.org
