Smiling Gecko News
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In September, Mariya Un Noun is in Switzerland to collect donations for the Smiling Gecko Campus with her great “New Khmer Cuisine”. Be there!
We received bad news from Cambodia. In the early evening hours of June 30, the Smiling Gecko Campus was hit by a severe storm that lasted several hours, which unfortunately caused major damage to buildings and greenhouses, the Farmhouse Resort and the fields.
Last Wednesday, we surprised our kindergarten and primary school children with lots of fantastic books. The books were donated by the students of Lakeside School Horgen.
Yesterday on Swiss television and already available on our website: the program “mitenand”, with a four-minute portrait of our Cambodian carpenter Pha, who received his training on our campus. Thank you, dear SRF, for being with us in Cambodia. The report turned out great.
The children of our school have recorded a new song. “Heal the World”, the ballad by Michael Jackson, which fits into these crazy times like no other song. Here is the video for it.
The consequences of the corona pandemic are still omnipresent in Cambodia. In a country where there is practically no government support, people are still extremely dependent on the humanitarian aid of Smiling Gecko and other international NPOs. We make our contribution, which we must finance entirely from donations. That’s why we are so grateful for any form of support.
In November our “container full of music” filled with lots of pianos, drums, guitars, violins, trumpets and flutes started its journey to Cambodia. Now it has finally reached its destination. The children of our school enthusiastically received the instruments and now the instruments are given a second life, spending great joy to many Cambodian children.
Once again, the students at our Education Campus rehearsed a Christmas song as a way to convey their thank you to you. The rehearsals and recordings of the well-known Christmas song “Merry Christmas Everyone” by Shakin’ Stevens were a welcomed-change for the children from their everyday life impacted by the pandemic, school cancellations and often hunger.
Smiling Gecko Campus YEAR END REVIEW 2021 Dear friends of Smiling Gecko The second Corona
The Covid pandemic and its effects have now lasted much longer than anyone had hoped for at the beginning of the crisis, and the situation in Cambodia has continued to deteriorate in 2021. At our school, it’s been a difficult year as well.
The situation has not improved; quite the contrary. In order to alleviate the acute situation, Smiling Gecko has been providing emergency humanitarian aid since the beginning of the Corona crisis in March 2020, supporting more than 400 families with over 2,400 family members in the area. Our emergency team regularly distributes packages of food and medical supplies to those in need.
A particularly dramatic consequence of the pandemic, especially in rural areas – due to job loss, many families are deprived of their only source of income and without financial reserves, adults have to travel far in search of work.
ASSOCIATION SMILING GECKO Am Wasser 9 8600 Dübendorf Switzerland
+41 44 321 67 70
info@smilinggecko.ch
We would be incredibly grateful for a small donation.
Every amount counts to give people in rural Cambodia a future.
