Guest house Borderless-tokyo Foster child program

Cambodia？
What Borderless-tokyo guest house know

First of all, please look at the list below

	Death rate of children under 5yrs of age. (out of1000)	Percentage of people who use safe water.	Average GNI per person. (US dollars)	Percentage of children going to school at fifth grade	Percentage of people who can read.	Average duration of life
Cambodia	138	30％	270	45％	68％	56yrs
Japan	5	-	35990	100％	-	81yrs

You'll be shocked at the death rate of children under 5yrs old.Japan only has 0.5percent compared to Cambodias 13.8percent .In another words, less than a person dies in Japan out of 100 whereas 13dies in Cambodia.This fact will actually be good enough reason to join.

From here onwards, Borderless-tokyo guest house have picked up some of the topics that we thought it might be worthwhile for the people who are interested in volunteering. If you think you are the one, have a look through.

<Education>

Government is trying to popularize mandatory education but the fact that the schools in the rural area are far away from home, the lack of teachers, high school expences are obstacle to propagation.Also, the lack of understanding by the parents to make their children take the education are giving influence to the school attendance rate. Especialy girls school attendance rate is low because people have an idea that education will be obstacle to marriage.Education system in Cambodia is: Kindergarden 3yrs, Elementry school 6yrs. Junior high 3yrs. High school 3yrs. University 4-7yrs.New semester starts from September, and finishes atJune.It uses semester system.

<Insurance condition>

The average lifetime in Cambodia is 54yrs. Children under 5yrs old and pregnant womans death rate is high. Many children lose their life by respiratory tract infection ,malaria,diaria, malnutrition, disease that could be prevented by treatment. In the rurals, safe drinking water and clean toilet facilitys are limited. Medical institutionwise, facilities are poor, lack of personnel and chemicals are a big issue. When a children becomes ill they are usualy taken to a traditional healer, but scientificwise, we are not sure how effective it is.

<Housing>

People live in a house that are made of woods and bamboo.Roof is made by either roof tile or atap. All the houses are built with the floor elevated above ground level and inbetween the floor and the ground people usually preserve farm products or keep their barn animals or use as a stop off. Most houses don't have electricity or telephone.
Khmer people usualy don't place a lot of furnitures since they usually sit on the floor when dinning or when a guest comes for a visit. When a guest actually comes, they will place a carpet.

<Agriculture>

80% of the whole population lives in the outback and most of them self support by doing agriculture. Their main crop is rice. The amount of rice produced will heavily be influenced by the precipitation and sometimes because of the fact of dry whether and flood, people will end up with no production. Also, the problem about land ownership and the removal of landmines and unexploded bombs are still yet to be solved.
Young children are expected to help the farming too.

<A days life of a child living in the outback>

The childs day starts around 6am. In the early morning they have to help their family by serving breakfast, taking care of the farm animals, chopping woods and water drawing .Elementry schools lessons are divided to 2sessions so each child goes to school when it's their turn. On their way back, they go into the bushes to eat nuts and have fun catching insects. Rice and fried fish and vegetable are quite common for lunch around there and after lunch, children go out to play with their friends.
Early evening, they have to take care of their brothers, sweep the garden, help making dinner and draw water. Dinner will be over by 6pm and after that, they chat about what happened that day and will go to sleep by 8pm.

<Custom>

Traditionaly either father or grand father usualy name their child. The reason why most of the childrens names are the same with their father or grand father is this.　People around here really believes that an evil spirit will take away their children and to prevent from it, parents talks about how their children are ugly with a large voice to their neighborhoods.
Like Japan, surname comes first and first name comes last. Most of the people doesn't know their real birthday. Some knows their age by remembering the oriental zodiac.
The data of the birth register in the past were disposed in the Khmer Rujyu era so the government are calling for the new birth registering.

Foster Plan activities in Cambodia

<Fosterplan Cambodia's challenge>

Fosterplan has just started the activity in Cambodia. It has commenced from August 2002 at a place called Siem Reap, southeast part of the country. The reason why this place was chosen were by the poverty research that has been covered by both the Cambodian government and Fosterplan.
Nowadays, the activities are proceeding step by step at Ancol tom section in Siem Reap Foster plans comunity development counselor are commencing an assembly explaining what exactly are the foster plan and why are they here, to children, adult, and the leader of the village.
The reason why they are doing this is to make people understand the idea, the goal and mission and how to proceed this program of the Foster plan. The residents of this district are taking charge of creating the document about the villages current status and resorces In this one whole year, they will register the children and collect the basic data, and will do a participatory development on agricultural village research.
After this, all the participated residents will give out the idea on how to go on with the developement plan.

Cambodia related homepages.

http://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/area/cambodia/index.html