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Books for Cambodia

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CCAMS students have written eight more books, they are just waiting for illustrations to be completed. A new children’s book entitled Remember, has recently been mass produced and distributed to local stores!  This is a caterpillar-to-butterfly story with a creative twist. Another book is ready for publication called A Hole of His Own.  It is a story for younger children about the love of two big sisters for their little brother. Blackie’s Boy, is almost ready to print.  It is the story of a dog’s sacrificial love for his boy.

They have submitted copies of their first three published books to Room-to-Read to obtain government approval for distribution to libraries all across Cambodia.

New CCAMS dance

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“My Body Broken for You,” was performed at Logos International School in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on June 8, 2013, is an original dance in Khmer creative style, lyrics by Sarin Sam to a traditional Khmer melody, with choreography by CCAMS graduate staff Reaksmey Long Ty.

Seth writes –

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ALTHOUGH I AM REALLY VERY TiRED PHYSICALLY, I AM FULL OF JOY BECAUSE THE MAIZE WAS SAFELY DISTRIBUTED TO THE PEOPLE OF MNASE YESTERDAY. ALL THE PEOPLE OF MNASE WeRE SO HAPPY AND SENDING MUCH THANKS TO YOU AND ALL THE PEOPLE who DONATED. WITH MUCH HAPPINESS AND FREE MIND, I  HAVE UNEXPLAINABLE THANKS TO GOD AND TO YOU MEN OF GOD FOR YOUR LOVE AND KINDNESS TO US AND OUR PEOPLE HERE IN TANZANIA ESPECIALLY OUR PEOPLE THAT were MOST AFFECTED WITH FAMINE, The famine has caused many DISEASES AND KILLed OUR PEOPLE FOR MORE than A YEAR now. PLEASE, PLEASE KEEP PRAYing  FOR OUR PEOPLE.

More news from Tanzania

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Road to central TanzaniaCan’t believe that he has had to travel 600km just to find good and reasonably priced maize! Oh how we live in a different world – respect!

“Dear, Buying maize from Tabora about 600 km a way fro Dodoma is some how going on well,the maize are so good for human use,but it takes long time to buy the maize we want the people at Mnase Dodoma,Now we have 50 sacks of maize,we are continuing to buy more maize.The challenge is that many people from many parts of the country and also from nearby countries are coming to buy the maize here and the maize are not enough compering the number of the people,companies,societies and business-men who comes to buy them from this small area farmers.”

Relief for Tanzania

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E Distribution 08Latest news from Seth in Tanzania – maize buying is not like going to the supermarket in the UK !!

“After receiving the money i went to see the maize, I found the maize was not Useful for human being – it was just for animals and chickens, and there are so many scandals for the people,societies and government who are sending useless and spoiled food (maize and millet) to the villages and other places where hunger affected most of people. And that food has affected many people and caused some of them bad sicknesses. So we were so shocked and thought we need to find a different way to get the maize.So we confidently decided to travel  to another region very far West side of Dodoma to Tabora where I lived and grew up for many years. There we found good maize and we will start to buy the maize tomorrow we hope to buy very nice maize and we hope to buy more sacks of maize than expected to be bought in Dodoma.”

Tanzania relief

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Dear friends – the news of famine in Tanzania is not good and according to Switzerland-based non-governmental organisation ACT Alliance “Nine regions of Tanzania, namely Arusha, Manyara, Kilimanjaro, Shinyanga, Dodoma, Iringa, Mwanza, Mara and Tabora, are caught up in chronic and transitory food insecurity due to poor or no harvests,” Seth writes …..

“I am at Dodoma this time,trying to go in the villages to see and evaluate the famine effect to the poorest and disable communities,and trying to rescue just few of them,because so many people are becoming very weak,sick and dying.”

We are looking at sending a truck load of maize to the village – and we need your help – if 1000 people gave £4 each we would be able to send roughly 100 sacks of maize to Mnase village. We so appreciate your help – Asante sana.

News from Tanzania

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2nd download 030Seth writes from Tanzania – ” The food Problem is covering the whole Dodoma Villages and town,Central Region and More other parts of the Country,No rain this time and the food prices especially maize still shooting higher,last time as I shared to you 1 sack of maize was 100,000.TSH from 40,000 TSH,But now is 130,000 SHS, the situation is very bad.”

You can help by buying their music –

Roneat

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The roneat is a Cambodian instrument that is similar to the Western xylophone. There are two played in an ensemble, the roneat ek, positioned at the front of an orchestra, considered to be the female voice and the roneat thong, the male voice.

Mwenye pupa hadiriki kula tamu - 'a hasty person misses the sweet things'

Tanzanian proverb

The Flute Player

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On our trips to Cambodia we have met with and heard many stories of how musicians were persecuted during the Pol Pot dictatorship. Last night we watched a very moving documentary on a young flute players disturbing story of life during the Khmer Rouge take over and how he is now restoring traditional Khmer arts in Cambodia.