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Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project 2009: Sra Por village, Cambodia
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Standing together in the New Life Community they built side by side, Habitat volunteers and partner families in Cambodia watch songbirds take flight. They are symbols of the departure of the homeowners’ old lives, but perhaps they also represent new hopes, now free to fly.
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Build Day 5: Dedicated and celebrated
On Wednesday and Thursday, volunteers stayed well beyond the scheduled 5 p.m. quitting time to stay on track for a grand finish Friday.
On Friday, volunteers stayed late once again. This time, though, they stayed late to celebrate.
After dedicating 21 freshly finished homes in the New Life Community, volunteers and families shared a meal outside while a crescent moon was rising. Traditional Cambodian dances accompanied the dinner. Non-traditional music preceded it when Cambodian hip-hop artist DJ Khlaing performed a song inspired by his day spent building on the Carter Project work site.
Other entertainment included a clown show for the village children, and volunteers from New Zealand performed a traditional Maori dance called the Haka.
Saturday, volunteers will return to the community again, capping their celebration with a visit from Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter.
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A look inside the Sra Por village build site, from the perspective of the Habitat volunteers who help make it happen.
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A week of hard work and big smiles begins on the build site in Cambodia. More than 300 volunteers will build homes alongside 21 Cambodian partner families in Phoum Phnom Bat village during the Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project 2009. |
Overview
Carter Work Project volunteers in Cambodia helped build 21 houses this week. The new homeowners are relocating from a dump site in Damnak Thom village, on the eastern outskirts of Phnom Penh. The homes were built in the northwestern border of the capital in Sra Por village, Punhea Leu district, Kandal province.
Habitat for Humanity Cambodia provided microfinance loans and other help to build the homes, a clinic and a community center.
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