8/29/2007

Clean up garbage Project in Borei Keila

One of our motto is ‘practice now’. It is important to pursue the theory, but practice is also important. On Borei Keila we have surveyed built environment. From now on we will discuss about the space organization by our field survey data. It will take some months to draw the results.
We also discussed about what we can do now.

Fourteen Japanese students and eight Cambodian students participated in this project. Community leaders also participated in. We made five groups. Sum of the bag in which we gathered the garbage is around forty. We found much garbage on the road.

While we gathered the garbage, many children also began to gather them. Under the community leader’s indication, inhabitants began to clean the water path which had become dirty because the garbage in the water stopped the flow.

The theme of our survey is same as the theme of this project. But the garbage project is easier for the inhabitants to understand. So many inhabitants accepted our behavior. We think this project became the chance to communicate with the inhabitants, and we hope that they understand the meaning of our survey.

We want to have an intimate relationship with the inhabitants, NGOs, and RUFA, and want to inform our results to them someday.