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On our recent trip to an Eco-Tourism Village in Cambodia, we had a fantastic guide take us treking through the jungle, and tour their wildlife release station. His name is Leeheng, and after his village shifted from an economy based on wildlife poaching, to one based on eco-tourism, he is extremely grateful for his new way of making a living.
The village is very remote, and sees some tourism, but not enough to allow the villagers enough money to purchase a bathroom for the one-room school house his daughter will attend later this year.
We met Leeheng's family, and they were just so wonderfully friendly and gracious for us to visit their village, as were all the villagers, that we felt we really wanted to be able to help them with something so important to them, and yet so simple for us.
They invited us to come into the little school house and take pictures of the children. So adorable! We also took photos of the school yard and the area behind the school house where they would like the bathroom to be built. It will be built of cinder blocks, with a metal roof and wooden doors, and is to have two toilets and two sinks.
The village is very remote, and sees some tourism, but not enough to allow the villagers enough money to purchase a bathroom for the one-room school house his daughter will attend later this year.
We met Leeheng's family, and they were just so wonderfully friendly and gracious for us to visit their village, as were all the villagers, that we felt we really wanted to be able to help them with something so important to them, and yet so simple for us.
They invited us to come into the little school house and take pictures of the children. So adorable! We also took photos of the school yard and the area behind the school house where they would like the bathroom to be built. It will be built of cinder blocks, with a metal roof and wooden doors, and is to have two toilets and two sinks.

