Kompung Cham -- 17th Nov 2007. The Don Bosco Foundation of Cambodia, thanks to its benefactors, opened a new village school in Kompung Cham last weekend. The Koh Roka Village, Kompung Seam District, Kompung Cham Province, was inaugurated by the Dutch benefactors who provided the building for six classes, repairing of the kindergarten, the electric lines and provided for drinking water. The total budget of this new educational work for the children of Koh Roka was US$ 34,000. The works were overseen by Father Gerard Vogin, the Kompung Cham Parish priest. The benefactors were a group of Dutch businessmen, HENGELO, who wanted also to pay a homage to the 50th Anniversary of Father John Visser being a missionary in Thailand and Cambodia. Father John Visser is himself Dutch and is currently the country representative of the Don Bosco Foundation of Cambodia. The ceremony was attended by four of the Hengelo group who wanted to come to Cambodia and see the works, Father John Visser, Father Gerard Vogin, Mgr. Anthony Susairaj, Bishop of the Apostolic Prefect of Kompong Cham, five staff of the Don Bosco Children Fund, local authorities and the community of Koh Roka Village.
The children received also some gifts from the Dutch benefactors consisting in sweets and tools for study. But the story of those gifts have an origin in Germany. Mister Ronald Nijkrake, one of the Dutch benefactors, attended the wedding of the daughter of a German friend before coming to Cambodia for the opening of the school. When he said to the people summed for the wedding that he was going to the Asian country to give a school to children, people gathered U$ 500 for them. In this way, 300 children of Koh Roka got something from this eventual German benefactors. "We are happy that a new Cambodian village has its school in the way to a best development", said Father John Visser.
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