Briefly, he first talked to us about water treatment. We asked specific questions about the BSF and what kinds of issues still exist. We arrived at a couple of interesting areas. While BSF achieves 30-40 liters of water output per day, improvement in health can hardly be measured. Having diarrhea may be caused by food sanitation, hygiene, and perhaps only 20-25% to clean water. That might be true and $20-25 of the $60 cost to build a filter is given to the staff to work and educate the villagers about these topics. Ray claims that it is possible to have more in-depth understanding of hygiene and safe storage practices as an objective.
Lastly, he also mentioned something Viriya also brought up: how could we possibly get more sand for the filters. Right now it's done by hiring 3 people for $3 per day rotating a sift all day, every day. This is a possible avenue as well.
Children on the bank across from Cafe Fresco, where we had coffee.
Chenla Restaurant, #13 Street 278, is a non-profit restaurant which employs poor students from the Phnom Penh area. Great Cambodian mains from US$2-3 and large fruit shakes for less than US$1. Go for a meal and enjoy the after dinner conversation with the enthusiastic servers who like to practice their english! The food wasn't great but it is for a good cause!
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