72 percent of survey respondents reported that they had experienced abdominal pain or diarrhea in the month prior to receiving the filter. When asked if they had experienced this since they began using the filters, only 8 percent of them reported that they had.

New volunteer computing teacher, Kandy Valle, has arrived, bringing with him his generous donation of 8 laptops for the children studying here at SSF. Learning IT provides the children with the invaluable opportunity of gaining employment in a fast developing Cambodia. Previously in lessons, many students had to squeeze round one screen, but now with a total of fifteen computers, no more than two share the same computer in any one class.

80% of Cambodian populations are farmers but they don’t have enough rice fields and rainfall isn’t sufficiency for crops growing. Dry season is taken longer than wet. 57% of Kampong Speu residents are lived under poverty line that their revenue is less than one US dollar a day, according to poverty profile made by Cambodian government in 2004.