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Blog Archives: March

March 20, 2012 -

Every year, Cambodian monks partake in the Dhammayietra, a peace walk. This year, MID-BCC supported the monks by providing training and materials for the monks to spread avian influenza prevention messages to the schools and communities they visited. MID-BCC consultant Tongngy Kaing accompanied the monks for their training and the first part of their walk, and shared his experience with us.

Pre-departure training took place from March 10 to 11, but I could join only on the 11th. It started 7:30 and finished at about 11:30. The contents of the training are Buddhism, prayer, disciplines of the walk, how to teach students, general guidelines. But what is interesting is that there was a 30-minute training on how to teach hand washing to students and children at about 10:00. There was a revision of how to wash hands properly for all the monks. Since I got some A4 posters from FHI 360 here, I gave one to each of the 40 monks. More...
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