COMMUNITY EVENT

The Schedule For the Trip To Rattanakkiri

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May 12-15, 2007

Saturday 12

5.00 am - Gathering at UC campus
5.30 am - Setting off for Rattanakkiri
6.30 am - Having breakfast
7.00 am - Presenting the objectives of the trip
8.00 am - Individual introduction
9.00 am - 11.00 - Game & Entertainment
12.00 am - Having lunch (own cost/preparation)
11.00 pm -2.00 pm - Relaxing
3.00 pm - 4.00 pm - Game & Entertainment
5.00 pm - Arriving at Rattanakkiri
6.00 pm - Guest house check-in
6.30 pm - Going around the town (Your free choice)
7.15 pm - Welcome Dinner

Sunday 13

6.30 am - Having breakfast
7.00 am - Going to schools
7.00 am - 9.00 am - Working with 1st school
9.00 am - 11.00 - Working with 2nd school
12.00 am - Having lunch at Guest House
1.00 pm - Relaxing at GH
2.00 pm - Meeting with indeginous youths (in cooperation with CEDAC)
3.00 pm - Short movie debate
4.00 - Field visit to CEDAC's agricultural site such vegetable and fishing farm (Your Free Choice)
5.00 pm - Returning back to the Quest House
6.00 pm - 7.15 pm - Dinner Party with cultural Performance

Monday 14

6.30 am - Having breakfast
7.00 am - Setting off for resorts
8.00 am - 11.00 am - Ka Chanh Waterfall, Cha Ong Waterfall, and Thmor Da resort
12.00 am - Lunch Picnic (will be confirmed)
1.00 pm - (Visiting minority's village- Phum Tar Norle)
2.00 pm - 4.00 pm - Visiting Beung Yeak Loam Lake and cultural villages
6.00 pm - 7.15 - Dinner & Free schedule

Tuesday 15

5.00 am - Showing up at the hall of QH
5.30 am - Having breakfast
6.00 am - Setting off for Phnom Penh
6.00 am - 8.00 am - Relaxing
8.00 am - 9.00 am - Collecting feedback
9.00 am - 11.00 am - General Chit Chat
12.00 am - Having lunch (own cost/preparation)
1.00 pm - 3.00 pm - Relaxing
5.00 pm - Arriving at UC campus, Phnom Penh

**** Note:
We reserve the rights to change above schedule
We thank for your puntuality respects!!!

All rights reserved ® 2007

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YOUTH CAMPING &

COMMUNITY EVENT
Rattanakiri, Cambodia
12-15 May 2007

RESORTS OVERVIEW

The organizing committees provide you information about places we are going to visit:

About RATTANAK KIRI

Bordering Vietnam's central Highlands and Laos are the remote provinces of Ratanakiri and

Mondulkiri, both with thickly forested hilly terrain, hilltribe people, and abundant wildlife. Commercial enterprises in the region include logging, gem mining, and rubber plantations.

Ratanakiri is accessible by air from Phnom Penh. Over 80% of Ratanakiri's population of 72,000 is classified as hilltribe, mainly Jarai, Krunh, Brou, and Tampuan. The 12 ethnic minority groups are collectively called Khmer Loeu (highlanders), a name coined by Sihanouk in the 1940s. Some of the groups are found across the border of Vietnam's Central highlands or in Southern Laos. Many also still wear traditional costume - Krung women in sarongs and bare-breasted, Brou women with tattooed faces and ivory tusk earrings in their elongated earlobes.

Less than 60,000 hilltribes people now remain and their numbers are further threatened by a high mortality rate from malaria, diarrhea and childbirth complications. Their lives and livelihoods are now also threatened by the encroachment of logging into their territory.

The recent history of Ratanakiri is not a happy one. During the Vietnam War the province of Ratanakiri was devastated by American carpet booming because it formed part of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, which continued to run relatively undisturbed by the wanton destruction. However, the bombing not only killed and injured many tribes-people, it also drove away the animals they hunted and destroyed their farmlands. The Khmer Rouge used Ratanakiri as their main base of operations in the early 1970s; when they came to power in 1975, the Khmer Rouge wiped out at least half the tribal population. Most highlanders in Ratanakiri are animist and practice slash-burn agriculture. They farm rice and grow vegetable, and raise water buffalo and cows.

They also hunt, using crossbows with poison-tipped bamboo arrows. Sacrifice to the numerous animal spirits of the forest is common, and regularly performed for any special events such as marriage, the construction of a new thatch-roofed hut, or a move to a new village location. At these events a feast is held, a pig sacrificed and large quantities of rice wine consumed. At these gatherings the spirits believed to take a possession of certain individuals, who in a trance lose their own personality and take on that of the spirit, acting out a particular animist trait. Pries tesses regarded as the spiritual healers contact ancestral spirits and relay dreams.

Highland women enjoy as much freedom as men. They are free to divorce a husband who is cruel, and decisions on childbirth are the exclusive domain of women. If an unmarriageable women finds herself pregnant, she is not disgraced the man responsible, if not willing to marry, must reimburse the woman's family. The going rate is four buffaloes, some pigs, a few chickens and rice wine.

Ban Lung, population 10,000, is the principal town in Ratanakiri province, and lies 155km east of Stung Treng. There may be direct flights into Bang Lung. You can get to Bang Lung in five or seven hours, but the road may be washed out in the May - November monsoon season. In parts of Ratanakiri, the only vehicles that move during the rainy season are oxcarts and elephants.

Kachang Waterfall

Kachang Waterfall is situated 6km. north - west of Banlung. This Waterfall is located in the Kontung stream and flows into the Sre Pok River. The height of it is 12 m. and the water flows and falls throughout the year. A beautiful or magnificent landscape and huge amounts of fresh mist surround the waterfall. The visitors can take a bath and sit to look at the waterfall and other natural scenic beauties. or the visitors can also go around to view other natural sights on foot or take an elephants ride.

Cha Ung Waterfall

Cha Ung Waterfall is situated 8 km. west of Banlung and it flows throughout the year. The source of water creating this Waterfall flowed from Eisey Patamak Mountain ( Svay Mountain) . Below this Waterfall is a big hole, visitors can stand or sit to watch the waterfall from behind, and inhale the cool fresh air stemming from it.

Thmor Da Resort

Veal rum Plan (stone field ) is situated 14 km. North of Banlung. Stones cover the surface of this place and a dense around it. The visitors can go there and discover its beautiful attraction.

Yeak Loam Lake

Yeak Loam Lake is situated 5 km. south - east of Banlung. The Yeak Loam lake (volcanic crater) is the most beautiful lake of Ratanakiri formed by a volcanic eruption almost 4,000 years ago with 50 m. deep, 800 m. diameter and a walking path around the lake of 2,500 m. Two hundred meters of the track is a quaint wooden building housing tribal handicraft, the Crafts Museum.

JOIN US NOW !!!

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RATTANAKIRI
CAMPING & COMMUNITY EVENT

May 12-15, 2007

WHAT'S COMING UP?

It is such a great and terrific event that students from different institutes and universities come together and share experiences with one another which critically focuses on:

1. “Communiity event” through which we will distribute study materials to the kids in a Primary School in the province. We, therefore, would like you all to participate and call for your contribution regardless materials, monetary or spiritual support, for these will make the event possible and impressive which will be a benefit to the community and society as a whole.

2. “Gettiing to know one another” – the students will be making new friends and sharing their experiences (what they have met and done in their lives) on the day as well as finding out what the outdoor real life is. And

3. “Buiilldiing the peoplle network” – the students have opportunities to throw themselves into the real community (remote areas) and learn from the place and vice versa.

Please be informed that the deadline of the Registration will be BEST by April 15, 2007

Hotlines for further information:

Ven. Euon Samart 012 84 49 21
Chak Sopheap 011 94 32 13
Chan Tyta 012 96 69 58
Sou Saren 012 40 77 65
Ngoun Chanara 012 47 37 58
Sam Pagna 016 40 00 95
Meas Sopheara 012 97 39 42

Dinning House

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Taken under the roof of the dinning house in Chrey Ho Phnov Pagoda in the time of sunset, 3 February 2007.

The Group Ready to Leave

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In the compound of the Chrey Ho Phnov Pagoda, 4 February 2007.

How Happy !

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We dance happily around the pile of fire until the next morning of 4 February 2007 comes.

Happy Camping Day !

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On the top of Chrey Ho Phnov Mountain, Kompong Speu Province on 3 February 2007

Arrival on the Top of Chrey Ho Phnov Mountrain

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Some of our friends stand on the top of the mountain, taking a photo together as soon as we arrive at the camping site on 3 Feb 2007.

CAMPING EVENT !

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‘‘Camping Event’’ is one of the community events and a fantastic event that students from different institutes and universities come gather and share their own experiences with one another on the topic “Getting to Know Each Other”. It is the latest event that ever happened and it gives the students a chance to put themselves into the real nature. This camping will not only just gather together and talk but also make the student feel independent while they can truly help themselves. The event focuses on two major objectives below:

1. “Getting to know one another” – the students will be making new friends and sharing their experiences (what they have met and done in their lives) on the day as well as finding out what the outdoor real life is.

2. “Building the people network” – the students have opportunities to throw themselves into the real community (remote areas) and learn from the place and vice versa.

Avenue: Sre Pophnov Mount, Srok Kang Pisey, Kompong Speu
When: Saturday & Sunday, February 3-4, 2007

As mentioned above, we would like to invite you to join and participate the event and make it possible.

For further information:

Ven Euon Samart 012 84 49 21
Chak Sopheap 011 94 32 13
Chan Tyta 012 96 69 58
Sou Saren 012 40 77 65
Ngoun Chanara 012 47 37 58

Improvement of Rural Children Awareness

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Mr Sambo Manara delivers his speech to the participants.
(10 December 2006)

Children are bamboo shoots for a nation, but most of them are not neither aware of the significance of the knowledge nor have its objectives for their future. About 70 percent of elementary students say that their ambitions are to be teachers, after finishing schools. They seem to know only the brightness around their villages. Career as a teacher is very popular among them. Importance of other jobs such as engineer, lawyer, architect and how to become these has never spread to the countryside; therefore, how do those children get the chance to live happily when they are old enough?

In order to help the society, especially in the field of the educational system, a team comprised of about 100 university students from the University of Cambodia (UC), Panasastra University of Cambodia (PUC), and Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP), go to 2 schools in Takeo Province on 10 December 2006 (Human Rights’ Day). This group is lead by Mr Sambo Manara, a lecturer. On that occasion, roughly 700 students and 40 teachers in Ang Metrei Elementary School and Sam Rorng Elementary School of Angkor Borei District? greet the delegation warmly and joyfully.

Our objectives are 1)- to demonstrate significance of the knowledge, 2)- to encourage those pupils to strive to learn and tell them not to skip schools, and 3)- to bring some stationery parcels for the students.

The program finishes at 4:00 pm, and the group arrives in Phnom Penh at 7:00 pm safe and sound. We feel very enjoyable in this trip.

Please be informed that all friends will be welcomed warmly to take part in this group's activities.

Trip To Takeo Province

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Srey Niet, 12, answers confidently to questions.(10 December 2006)

Trip To Takeo Province

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Miss Yara (right), from the PUC, asked a question for valuating Srey Mom's competence.(10 December 2006)