Blogs from Pursat, Central, Cambodia, Asia

The Dept of Women’s Affairs (DWA) has network of offices in all provinces and districts. However, Cambodia is good in developing national plans and paying for staff but not good at funding resources to make it all work. So QSA has supported the DWA in Pursat province for over 7 years by paying for equipment and training for village women in work skills, business skills and personal development. They are focusing on work women can do at home which will reduce number of women moving to Phnom Penh for factory or “entertainment” work. The increase in income will also increase the women’s value to husbands, if they have one (13% are women headed households), reduce domestic violence and help reduce need to take children out of school. ... read more

Having just arrived in Pursat, a small town on the road between Battembang and Phnom Penh, after two gruelling days spent traveling through the least explored and mine filled Cardamom mountain range, my intention here is to just say that the full entry about this recent escapade will likely take a couple of days to translate into coherent sentences. Meanwhile. With the second storm in two hours raging above our heads (there's a corrugated tin roof between us), we are recuperating from a lack of sleep and food and more excercise than any but the most masochistic could hope for ....in a single lifetime! Oh, the power has returned for a minute or two and the leak above my bed is weeping again. Despite the overpowering smell of sewerage in the room, this Guesthouse (loosly termed) ... read more

Poipet ........., this is my last day in Cambodia , this Quaint little place , its like the wild west ,and probably the most, tragic, place i've been to in Cambodia.. its really rough here , it seems that there's even less order here than Phnom Penh , and thats saying somethin ,.. but nonethe less very entertaining and cheap ... decided to stay tonight and have an easy days travel to' Paradise" tomorrow, didn't fancy a night in Bangkok , seen it,done it.... I came this way into Cambodia and the journey was like a Four Hour long Roller Coaster , there's only a very basic , very straight road , which i was assured by the driver would be finished next year !!! . There are pot holes everywhere and he was doing Mach ... read more