I had just boarded my flight from Auckland to Bangkok...............not only feeling very shattered by experiencing sleep deprivation from the 7.1 Earth Quake that hit the Canterbury region two weeks earlier.....I was excited and nervous as what to find with the jewellery project I had started and nurtured into fruition back in July / August 2009. Here I was off back to The very community that has seemed to have captured my heart and my attention to want me to help them in the best ways that I can.
I arrive in Phnom Penh to the familiar sights and smells of a city with many people in it, many in poverty, especially comparison to the poor of New Zealand. Hundreds of people riding or being transported by the Moto or Tuk Tuk to work or school. Trucks with the back try crammed full of people going to work in the garment factories.
I am picked up from the airport from the driver I try to use when in Phnom Penh. Mr Sok. Its good to employ Sok for a few hours , as he has good english I am able to pick up any supplies needed for the Jewellery Craft Project before heading off to Wat Opot.
I have 2 days in Phnom Penh to get the supplies and try and get over any jet lag etc before my stay with the children.
Mr Sok was able to help me locate a place where I was able to buy rolls of copper wire. Cambodia is a place that uses all the resorces they have to create new resources. The place I was taken to, was a place where they pulled apart or rebuild electrical items....these items having cooper wire in them is handy for my needs. So after some pigeon discussion and good translation of Sok I was able to buy 2.5 kilos of various sizes and lengths of copper wire. Only $38 US dollars.......
I also had Sok take me to where there are Art Supplies and Paper. I wanted to get some supplies of Art pencils , acrylic paints and the likes for the Art students at the Childrens community.
Like wise I got Sok to take me to the russian market to see if I could get some sand papers etc for the Jewellery project.
The morning of Day 3 in Phnom Penh I headed for Wat Opot Community.
Monday, December 27, 2010
Getting back to the Jewellery Project 2010
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How this Journey Began
Fund Raising Journey 2008 / 2009
Hi My Name is Fiona,
I am ‘FEEBS’ Paua flowers & Flowers For Cambodia NZ ’
In August 2007 after reading an article in the Readers Digest NZ I created and followed a great opportunity to visit Project Wat Opot in the Takeo Provence Cambodia.
Whilst there I was so inspired by what they were trying achieving there I knew I had to return to help with what skills I had, and to share them with them.
To my knowledge Project Wat Opot up until January 2007 was an orphanage for children, some of whom were dying from the HIV virus. For 8 years prior to 2007 Wat Opot saw many of the children and some of their parents succumb to the virus.
January 2007 brought a new trail medication which then gave an opportunity for for the children to have prolonged life. Project Wat Opot was faced with a new challenge with the children that were HIV positive, it was impossible for them to return to a normal community. Discrimination and Stigma.
They have now changed their status as an orphanage to a ‘Community’ with a vision to be completely self sufficient.
They are doing this by welcoming the learning of any trades that can offer them the potential to bring money and to learn a trade that can help support their community.
The Trade that I can teach them is jewellery making for the commercial market of which I have a vast range of experience in this field.
What I am aiming to achieve in my time there in July 2009 is not only to teach them techniques of the jewellery trade but to look at their own resources and help develop some products that can make and will be sellable to the rapidly growing tourist trade.
I now have another passionate person joining me in going to Project Wat Opot . Marijke Lups is an Arts and Crafts teacher in Chirstchurch New Zealand and is completely and utterly inspired about what is happening at Wat Opot as I was when I first read about Wat Opot.
We fly out for Cambodia from New Zealand on the 13th July 2009 and will be at the project for about 5 weeks. While there we will be teaching our skills of Art and crafts and how to be creativily resourceful with what resources they have to make some stunning jewelly and Craft products.
Follow my journey with Wat Opot ...read the posts I have added below to keep you updated.
Check out their Wat Opot's new website and be inspired yourself
http://www.watopot.org/
Hi My Name is Fiona,
I am ‘FEEBS’ Paua flowers & Flowers For Cambodia NZ ’
In August 2007 after reading an article in the Readers Digest NZ I created and followed a great opportunity to visit Project Wat Opot in the Takeo Provence Cambodia.
Whilst there I was so inspired by what they were trying achieving there I knew I had to return to help with what skills I had, and to share them with them.
To my knowledge Project Wat Opot up until January 2007 was an orphanage for children, some of whom were dying from the HIV virus. For 8 years prior to 2007 Wat Opot saw many of the children and some of their parents succumb to the virus.
January 2007 brought a new trail medication which then gave an opportunity for for the children to have prolonged life. Project Wat Opot was faced with a new challenge with the children that were HIV positive, it was impossible for them to return to a normal community. Discrimination and Stigma.
They have now changed their status as an orphanage to a ‘Community’ with a vision to be completely self sufficient.
They are doing this by welcoming the learning of any trades that can offer them the potential to bring money and to learn a trade that can help support their community.
The Trade that I can teach them is jewellery making for the commercial market of which I have a vast range of experience in this field.
What I am aiming to achieve in my time there in July 2009 is not only to teach them techniques of the jewellery trade but to look at their own resources and help develop some products that can make and will be sellable to the rapidly growing tourist trade.
I now have another passionate person joining me in going to Project Wat Opot . Marijke Lups is an Arts and Crafts teacher in Chirstchurch New Zealand and is completely and utterly inspired about what is happening at Wat Opot as I was when I first read about Wat Opot.
We fly out for Cambodia from New Zealand on the 13th July 2009 and will be at the project for about 5 weeks. While there we will be teaching our skills of Art and crafts and how to be creativily resourceful with what resources they have to make some stunning jewelly and Craft products.
Follow my journey with Wat Opot ...read the posts I have added below to keep you updated.
Check out their Wat Opot's new website and be inspired yourself
http://www.watopot.org/
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