This week, we had the great pleasure of welcoming Father Franco Legnani, an Italian priest working for over 20 years in Cambodia, Father Franco works with the very poorest people in Kompong Chhnang, a mixed Vietnamese/Cambodian floating village on the Tonle Sap River, north of Pnomh Penh. Father Franco has a special interest in helping the mentally disabled, many of whom are … [Read more...] about Welcome, Father Franco!
Medical Supplies for Svay Hospital
Thanks to the efforts of Carol Shippey and the goodwill of three UEA medical students, Support Cambodia has been able to send out a box of assorted medical supplies for the Regional Hospital at Svay Sisophon. They will be delivered to Medical Director Dr Daravuth whom we met at the hospital last January [see picture below]. Basic medical supplies are badly needed, … [Read more...] about Medical Supplies for Svay Hospital
It’s All Go at Dailo!
At last things seem to be moving at Dailo - a large village about 5 miles from Svay Sisophon. Father Rajat has been working with the villagers here for several years, building contacts with families and trying to improve the basic facilities. The village is very spread out with the traditional-style houses dotted around in jungle clearings and access down a dirt road only … [Read more...] about It’s All Go at Dailo!
New Pastoral Centre Opens in Kompong Chhnang
When the parish group visited Cambodia in January, we visited four other church centres besides Svay Sisophon. One of them was Kompong Chhnang, about 150 miles south of Sisophon where we were shown round by parish priest Father Franco Legnani and saw the nearly-finished Pastoral Centre and Day Care Centre for the Mentally Disabled. These two new buildings will provide, for … [Read more...] about New Pastoral Centre Opens in Kompong Chhnang
CELEBRATION AT THE LAND OF THE MARTYRS
May 7th was the anniversary of the death of Paul Tep Im Sotha, the first Apostolic Prefect [Bishop] of Battambang. Monsigneur Tep Im, along with Fr John Badre, a French Benedictine, was brutally murdered in 1975 by the Khmer Rouge at a place 5 kilometres outside Svay Sisophon, now known in English as the Land of the Martyrs. A shrine has now been established there and it has … [Read more...] about CELEBRATION AT THE LAND OF THE MARTYRS
