A chance to change lives....
Tabitha Foundation has been supporting Cambodians since the mid 1990’s. Janne Ritskes and her team have developed a great program providing savings plans, the chance to develop sustainable financial resources, clean drinking water and the opportunity to have a home - ironically, all the things we take for granted in the West. When families have nothing, life ahead can seem hopeless. Tabitha helps families and communities to develop hope and a future with purpose.
Today we had the opportunity to provide one thing we take for granted, a house, to 8 families in Kandal Province (about 2 hours out of Phnom Penh). This day accounted for the largest part of our fundraising efforts.
The following are the thoughts of some of our team members:
An early start for all the team members to be on the way to our area for house building, 2 hours on the bus and we finally reached our destination, we were divided into 4 groups and each group had to do the floors and walls on 2 houses so all up we completed 8 houses as a team, with the help from the locals some of the houses were done very quickly and we saw some interesting ways of putting nails in with some using an axe and one using his hands. The families of the houses were very thankful and appreciative of our efforts into giving them a house, at the end of our building we had a presentation where we gave each family a blanket made by the ladies at Tabitha. Overall we all had a good time and a very different experience which made us so grateful for everything we have back at home.
Teneille
This was probably my favourite day of the trip so far. Building houses, even simple ones, is hot, hard and testing work, although I do feel like a professional hammerer now after doing 2 lots of bamboo flooring! All the work was undeniably worth it. The families we were building for provided us with water and even helped where they could. Presenting them with a home was one of the greatest honours I’ve ever had. I greatly appreciated the opportunity to work for a day and improve multiple peoples lives for good. I definitely will be doing something similar in future!
Jayde
The house building was a great experience where we got to see the families we built the houses for and how much we impacted their village, all the families were so grateful.
Taylah
On Tuesday the group and myself went to a small village outside of Phnom Penh to help build houses for those without. On the day we built 8 houses, which included nailing down the bamboo floors and nailing the tin to the frame of the house. During this experience we got to meet and interact with the families of the houses we built, and we presented the houses by giving each family a rug made by the ladies at the Tabitha Foundation.
Later that night half of the group went to cooking and learnt how to make a delicious curry and spring rolls!! The other half got to go out for dinner and get to know each other a bit better.
I loved this day.
Sophie
Today we had the opportunity to provide one thing we take for granted, a house, to 8 families in Kandal Province (about 2 hours out of Phnom Penh). This day accounted for the largest part of our fundraising efforts.
The following are the thoughts of some of our team members:
An early start for all the team members to be on the way to our area for house building, 2 hours on the bus and we finally reached our destination, we were divided into 4 groups and each group had to do the floors and walls on 2 houses so all up we completed 8 houses as a team, with the help from the locals some of the houses were done very quickly and we saw some interesting ways of putting nails in with some using an axe and one using his hands. The families of the houses were very thankful and appreciative of our efforts into giving them a house, at the end of our building we had a presentation where we gave each family a blanket made by the ladies at Tabitha. Overall we all had a good time and a very different experience which made us so grateful for everything we have back at home.
Teneille
This was probably my favourite day of the trip so far. Building houses, even simple ones, is hot, hard and testing work, although I do feel like a professional hammerer now after doing 2 lots of bamboo flooring! All the work was undeniably worth it. The families we were building for provided us with water and even helped where they could. Presenting them with a home was one of the greatest honours I’ve ever had. I greatly appreciated the opportunity to work for a day and improve multiple peoples lives for good. I definitely will be doing something similar in future!
Jayde
The house building was a great experience where we got to see the families we built the houses for and how much we impacted their village, all the families were so grateful.
Taylah
On Tuesday the group and myself went to a small village outside of Phnom Penh to help build houses for those without. On the day we built 8 houses, which included nailing down the bamboo floors and nailing the tin to the frame of the house. During this experience we got to meet and interact with the families of the houses we built, and we presented the houses by giving each family a rug made by the ladies at the Tabitha Foundation.
Later that night half of the group went to cooking and learnt how to make a delicious curry and spring rolls!! The other half got to go out for dinner and get to know each other a bit better.
I loved this day.
Sophie
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