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An Amazing Experience

Firstly apologies for the delay in putting our final post on here, it has been a bit of a wirlwind since we got back!

Just as the title says, what an amazing experience. The whole trip met exceeded our expectations in every way. The travelling was tough going it took almost 24 hours from Manchester to our final destination in Siem Reap but it was worth every single moment.

During our time there we worked with a fantastic group people who have such passion and determination for this wonderful cause. The work we completed whilst we there included helping to build a rain water collection unit so that the children would have clean, safe drinking water, build a bio-diversity garden so that the children could use this as part of their classes, complete the pathway between the 2 schools (not an easy task digging up all of that grass) and painting one of the main classrooms. During the week there was a lot of shovelling and carrying of sand, gravel and cement but there was also a lot of laughter. Although it was school holdiays whilst we were there a lot of the children were with us, helping us for most of the day. They had a great time teaching us Khmer and we enjoyed teaching them English. We played games in between working which was great fun. We spent one afternoon making face masks and teaching them origami. We enjoyed it just as much as the kids!

We thouhgt it may be very upsetting seeing the children but it was the opposite they're so happy! This is such a beautiful country and the people were warm and welcoming. It was an extremely humbling experience which was worth every minute and to see what the money raised was used for was amazing. The hardest part of the whole week wasn't the lifting or shovelling it was saying good bye to the children on the last day! There was a real sense that you would miss them and when you look at the photos you really do!

We hope to go back and do another trip soon. We have only this week arranged for posters to go out to our associates for our Spirit to Serve our Community Day next Friday, during Global Customer Appreciation Week. On the poster we have included the list of items which the school needs which we will be collecting and sending to Pepy so that we continue to support their efforts and support the children and families of Ruun Village!!

There are more photos on another post but there are so many that please get in touch with us to see more or find out more information on Pepy and their efforts!

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