up to you

DATELINE: August 19,2013
Patricia E Lyon

I think often of all of you who are considering coming to Cambodia. Perhaps God is nudging you to help in a developing country or for some unexplained reason you just want to come.

While it is fresh in my mind I will list some of the ideas I see for you.

Teach a workshop(s) on self defense or Tae Kwon Do. Teaching stations at Khnar Thmei Methodist Church, Siem Reap Teacher Training College, New Riverside Hotel.

Provide lessons or classes in beading. Many beads available in the market.

Provide a Vacation Bible School type experience for children at Khnar Thmei Methodist Church Saturdays or daily for short times. Up to you. Cokesbury or Westminster, etc. will have resources.

Come and buy paint and brushes and paint the church at Khnar Thmei inside and out. Church people will assist if you get them started.

While wearing sturdy gloves, carefully cut and roll up the rusty old barbed wire fence around the Methodist church at Khnar Thmei Village. People will help you. Take it to a recycling place. I worry about the children who play and swim there now. Tetanus.

From where you live track down the appropriate *4-H* representative and see if you can get them to get started in Cambodia. They have done great work in agriculture in South Korea. If 4-H is already in Cambodia, click “reply” and we would like to meet with them.

Teach English here. Levels from beginning to TOEFL.

Be an extra pair of hands to help us. And help us take first aid supplies and sewing items back and forth in our suitcase.

Computer technology is greatly appreciated.

Another idea from home. Establish a website for Building Cambodia Inc.

Sponsor a student for a year: tuition, books and uniforms are $500. Paul Debrule School for hotel, tourism and culinary arts is $660 for a one-year certificate.

And for a certain veterinarian, just near our hotel is the office of a veterinarian. Good place to start.

The Siem Reap Teacher Training College has an agricultural department. We will check it out if you are interested.

There are reputable hospitals here who would appreciate medical help. Close by are centers for physical therapy.

When Deanna and I get back home we will have the beautiful things that the Bos Kralanh sewists have made. Please buy the items we bring back. The money goes to clean water wells, education scholarships for Cambodian people and development projects.

The Temples of Angkor Wat are spectacular. They are just the beginning of the many fascinating things you will see in Cambodia. But the most wonderful gift to you from God are the people of Cambodia. Think about it.

Click reply if you want to talk to us about this.