Blog Archives: Cambodia

April 17, 2012 -

Tongngy Kaing, MID-BCC consultant, shares his visits to community forums in four H5N1 high-risk provinces in Cambodia.

I traveled to Kampot, Svay Rieng, Kandal and Battambang the last week of March and first of April - just before New Years - to help organize and facilitate community forums on prevention related to bird flu (H5N1 virus).

Because these communities have most recently had outbreaks of the virus or remained as gateways of poultry transportation from other countries, there was a lot of public interest. About 500 people joined the forum in each of the four border provinces, and local TV stations such as CTN, Bayon and TVK also covered the forums. More...

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...