Finally community can reach news via Skype

Congratulation to Kep Community!

Today, we test our live broadcast from HQ to hubs via Skype (audio).

4 hubs are being tested. 3 hubs are in Kep and one hub is in KCM.

Well, students at those hubs can listen to the NEWS.

We will do someting next.

Share Experience and Lesson Learn Research Activities

The first, i want to say hello to everybody

for the research in the Last of July and the first week of August had complete some activities such as Attend in the OM/speak self evaluation, update the new database for user monitoring and Family linkup market research. From these activities, I am research Coordinator in kep got the lesson:

1. OM/speak self-evaluation the lesson learns are:
- This is new application so complex some question and difficult to completed
- There are some question are not clear and difficult to write into English to complete
- Among the All Community Facilitators (CF) and Management Committee ( MC) participants are 3 or 4 person are not understand for this process because the OM/Speak is the English languages so mark difficult to her/him.

2. Update database for monitoring form and analysis the user information on July ( the report I will later )
- All CF can get the new knowledge for using SPSS application, they have time to control the user and they input the user information into the Database by self
- And easer to make the monthly report of user

3 . Family Linkup Market Research lesson learns:
- All CF don’t want to travel to farther
- So spend along time for data entry and clean data
- And spend along time for report writing

One of the experiences for Sokleap

It is not for you to be shad (Anet) but it is just want to share one of the experiences!!
Raining makes me remember last year experience in Kep!!!
Sine yesterday and today, Aug 2008, there a lot of raining and winding here in Kep BUT I am still working in a nice office, nice desk and nice chair. Moreover, I can access to the internet with stable electricity that it is hugely different what was happened in July, 2007 while Kep iREACH start with little thing in term of nice office, internet and electricity. This time of that time, least year, I was working under the tree, 30mn latter I was running back to the office because of rainy season. Alas! Again, I was running out of office to work in the tent where the contractor of Kep iREACH office (HQ) renovation stocked the cement because we could not work in the environment of noisy, dusty of the building renovation. My laptop was on the table which was in the water and even my seat. My leg was on the brick, suddenly many insets was on my leg while my back was getting a piece of rain water (Dom Nok Tuek Pleang).
I was happy and I am happy when it was raining and it has raining while farmers also happy. Well, farmers are happy while it has raining because of they need water for their farm BUT I need for bathing. why I am so happy too. There are two reasons bellow:
1. I am not take a bath with water which was brought from the pound anymore (it has a lot of worm, plants and mud). It mad me have disease (Romors) and heard hair.
2. I am happy to farmer instead.
This is just one of my experiences with working in Kep.

Start with the newest experience for Saroeurn

It is not easy for someone who wants to become a writer while the other showed a difficulty in writing what is happening in their community, but the attractively dark and curly hair man showed an interesting in this job.

Cheang Saroeurn, 18 years old, is an 11 grade student of Hun Sen Chamkar Dong high school in Kep municipality started with a news episode poet after he attended training on journalism skill organized by iREACH project.

He started with a first topic on “Unsuccessful rape under age girl by anonymous man”. This is a hot news topic which he tries to do in a feature because he thinks that it is over for a few days ago. In the topic he tried to put the main point of journalism writing that he got from the training and what should admire him is including what training did not train yet. He said that “the combination of comment from teacher and a habit of reading newspaper and magazine made him understand some of writing”. Even though, his writing was not considered as a good but it is acceptable. These reflect that it is not difficult to train who gain interesting in writing. “I am interesting in talking and writing, comment from teacher, and I used to read some newspaper and magazine that made me understand in the some part of area” Saroeurn answered a question what factor could encourage you to do this job?

Saroeurn said that it is not a last topic. He is designing to write another topic on the issues of insect is attacking paddy field. He is attempting to tell this issue to government to take action to solve a problem of farmer in area of problem occurring.

One of more than 10 student and villager attended training course on journalism skill organized by iREACH project but Saroeurn is more progressive.

This is one of result which iREACH had done in aiming to built capacity of community member on management and implementation skill in order to encourage them to manage and implement project activities by them self when the project staff was dropped out.