‘I can conclude that young people are always open to listen proposals and those proposals must keep vision for a best society.’
In 2009 I did an experiment with all my students of journalism in Sihanoukville: I told them something like this:
‘When I studied journalism in my city, I didn’t have actually computers, but I used an old typewriter. Continue reading
On January 6, 2011, Mr. Gerard A.M. van Hal visited the Salesian works of Don Bosco in Cambodia and shared with Don Bosco Talk Youtube program in the Audiovisual Center of Sihanoukville.
Phnom Penh — DBNA – The Minister of Education, Sport and Youth of Cambodia, Im Sothy, visited this morning the compound of the Don Bosco Technical School in the capital district of Phnom Penh Thmey, and underlined the role of the Don Bosco schools in the recovery of Cambodia after the wars.
Sihanoukville – A kilometer pedestrian beach along Occheutel is the new feature in town this month. Works to complete it began early year and now it changes the face of the most popular beach in town. Continue reading
I thought that the visit was going to be to a gloomy place. A prison is not properly the place you dream to be. However, countries must work to make it not a lovely place, but rather a real educational place. This morning I went with three teachers to visit the Siem Reap prison. Lichado promotes the idea that Don Bosco creates a technical program inside it as we have in the Sihanoukville’s prison. We got an appointment with the prison director at 8 AM. Going to the prison when most people are visiting the Angkorian temples is already very original in us. But we came to this country to open the way of hope for young people without hope. Continue reading
In a conference on last Thursday to the students and teachers of the social communication section of the community of Sihanoukville, the Salesian superior for Thailand, Cambodia and Laos, Fr. John Bosco Thepharat Pitisant, underlined the importance of communications for the Salesian mission and the development of societies like Cambodia. Continue reading
The National Library of Cambodia and the Australian Embassy organized this week a forum in Phnom Penh to talk about culture of reading. Unfortunately I did not participate, because I did not get any invitation and, moreover, Sihanoukville is three hours by car from Phnom Penh. I got the news from The Cambodia Daily that entitled it ‘Cambodia Lacks Reading Culture, Experts Say.‘ Then I said ‘Eureka! These guys discovered the wet water! Continue reading
This year, our Don Bosco Technical School of Sihanoukville got an increase of 35 percent in electricity. It is the first time the school got such quick and sudden jumping. In a technical school, electricity is just vital for the development of its programs. Without electricity, how is it possible to make the technical workshops go on? Continue reading
There is a fact that causes some conflicts for some friends when they know that our Don Bosco Technical Schools in Cambodia charge the students with a monthly fee. Why do you say that it is ‘free education‘ when you charge the students?
It is necessary to clarify this element before it reaches confusions. Continue reading
No fire will destroy our dreams, Cambodia!
One thing you will be in contact everyday if you live or work in Cambodia is Buddhism and a Cambodian Buddhism that is more complex than you can imagine, but you get to love its philosophy, if you put a real attention to the people of the country. Because Cambodian Buddhism is at the same time very sincretic due to a millenariam history of natural believes, Hindu, Islam, Christianity and Buddhism that produced what is the Cambodian culture today.
Then I chose this picture to report about the fire of our studio of audio and video production to explain what happened and how we deal in Cambodia with problems. Continue reading
