FRIENDS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION

COMMUNITY LIVING: Ksach Poy is a small village which consists of around 300 inhabitants who live with simple lifestyle as farmers, local business owners, and government staff. The whole village is the combination of different aged people, but mostly old people, and young children because the adults are mostly moving to live in the city for better education and job opportunities or going abroad for work. Not all the families have access to running water, but they have Project Code: CYA/LMTV01 (Friends Economic Development Association) Theme: Language Teaching, Social Enterprise, and Culture Duration: March â December 2016 Location: FEDA, Ksach Poy Village, Wat Kor Commune, Battambang District, Battambang Province, Cambodia. Language: English Local Language: Khmer their own way of storing water for daily consumption. Although they have access to sufficient electricity but it is not affordable to have fridges, or heavy electronic devices. Volunteers are prepared to live with a local family whose members are able to use basic English for daily communication. The living condition is not very comfortable, but it is not too bad just to have a proper sleeping space and materials. ACCOMMODATION: Volunteers are going to stay in a house of a family in Ksach Poy Village, which is around 10 minutes from FEDA by foot. The food will be prepared in the local way together with the family, but it is also possible if the volunteers want to learn and help in the cooking in the very simple kitchen with traditional cookers and other cooking materials. There is no private room, but volunteers can have personal space. The volunteers can have their separate space outside the house for doing personal tasks for example, teaching preparation.