2Five2 Happenings

Over the past month we have had some exciting things happen with 2Five2 in Prek Pneu.  For starters, we had our Easter Celebration on April 6th, the last school day before Easter. The kids have been learning about the story of Jesus' death and resurrection for the whole month of March through a great Easter workbook all done in Khmer.  During the final week of Lent, Holy Week, a Chinese holiday also landed on the calendar.  The Chinese holiday lasted three days, and was a time when kids and their family went to the grave site of their dead ancestors and gave offerings and sacrifices to their bodies in hopes of having good fortunes and blessings.  It is a worship of the dead.  Many (umm..half) students were absent from school on these days, as they were in the provinces with their families.  But on Good Friday the day of our celebration we had 75 of our 100 kids present!  We celebrated a Risen King, a God who is alive and conquered death.  What a blessing to celebrate with these children!

Then last Saturday we hosted our 2nd Adult Community Workshop.  This time we invited the parents, caretakers, government teachers, and village authorities to learn about Child Rights.  We tried a new start time, which was a giant bust, because it was when everyone was shopping at the market, so after a 2 hour start delay we got going!  The training was wonderful with over 60 attendees, that ended in a hilarious game of dressing up adults in traditional men and women Cambodian clothes to essentially play a Child Rights version of pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey. 

Below is a few pictures of the game, and a video of the excitement (sorry for the vertical filming).  I will claim that when it was my turn to get dressed up I had the most cheers!

Today and tomorrow our staff and program are going through an external assessment and program evaluation.  It's tiring and makes for a few long days, but I am thrilled with all the positive feedback our staff is giving. 

Your prayers for this program, the kids, and the staff is still highly coveted and we thank you dearly for all that continue to pray and support us!