“Brothers and sisters at the World Bank Cambodia Office, I would like to thank you all so much for your help and support,” says Bopha (her given name), a mother of two children who is living with HIV/AIDS. She chokes, and tears roll down her emaciated chest as she receives a sewing machine and other [...]
2008 is the International Year of Sanitation. The Water Sanitation Program of the World Bank (WSP) is part of this initiative. WSP is also working to improve sanitation (toilet provision) and hygiene for Cambodians, especially for the poor. The World Bank Newsletter had an opportunity to interview Mr. Jan-Willem Rosenboom, Country Team Leader of WSP [...]
On June 19, 2008, the World Bank Group approved a US$30 million credit to support the implementation of Cambodia’s new Health Strategic Plan 2008 – 2015. The plan aims to improve health care and preventive health services for Cambodian people, with particular emphasis on women, children and the poor. The credit will be used to [...]
Phnom Penh, March 25 — The World Bank Group today approved a US$6 million grant to support Cambodia’s efforts to implement a national plan to minimize the threats from avian and human influenza, and to prepare its health systems to respond to any possible outbreak in the future. The grant, provided by the International Development [...]
World Bank staff and their families visited vulnerable children who study at Chey Chumas School to hear about their lives and gave them some school materials on Saturday December 9, 2006. Gifts, including uniforms, school bags, books, rulers, erasers, pens and pencils were given to 24 children affected by HIV/AIDS and other 30 students. Beng [...]
Born in Pursat province Mr. Sin Ngoen first came to Battambang during the time of Pol Pot. Like so many other Cambodians, the then 20 year old was forced from his home and family to work on a collective farm. Working on the farm was hard work and many people died from overwork and malnutrition. [...]
By THACH Chitaro Introduction Almost three decade of civil war in Cambodia left a trail of destruction Cambodian citizen life, particularly in Kampuchea Democratic regime which by the way move developing factor backward. Many transitions were putting into historic event to Cambodia. But in period of fervent Marxist and Maoist politicians called Khmer Rouge seized [...]