250 bicycles for 250 rural students

Everyone was full of energy on Sunday, July14, 2024, so we got up early at 4:00AM to cook breakfast. To make sure everything was there, a few team members took the materials from our warehouse and checked them. Since the majority of our students ask for nutritious meals, we prepare some veggies and fried pork for breakfast. We loaded up the bus with the materials and headed to the school for our mission once we finished cooking. At seven in the morning, we arrived at the school, followed by the REACH teams. After that, we had breakfast for 30 minutes. Our mission began with a brief introduction and we share more about teamwork in further detail and shared information about the students and school.

Around 8:00 am, we started to work together by following our process. Everyone looks very active and enjoyable in fixing the bikes and they had a lot of conversation with the students as well as among their teams. Then, after our students and guests worked hard for a few hours, we had a break for lunch at 12:00PM for lunch, we had late lunch because everyone really enjoy working under the littles rain and don’t really want to had breaks. we had chickens, pork soup, and dessert for lunch. All of these foods are healthy foods that provide more energy. By the way, we started our mission again at 2:00 pm. everyone worked so hard to fix the bikes for the students and villagers. We really proud and appreciate our students and volunteers for putting much effort in helping us to make our mission gone well even the rain comes they still continue their works with their warm smiles.

We were really surprised that we Totally fixed 170 bicycles in one day at Chan Sor Primary and Secondary school. It’s unbelievable. That was the result of the work that we had done with the team, our students, and volunteers.

Finally, we finished the mission at about 6:00PM, and then we had a reflection together. Our team said, "Thank you so much to the school directors" who allowed us to us MBM in the at village, especially since he allowed us to make the activities happen in the school and also had good cooperation and involvement with us. We also thanked our students, volunteers, REACH teams, and PP students who worked hard in each role in our activity. One more thing, one of the students expressed their feelings that they were very excited that they were able to get their bike fixed and that it worked, yet allow them to get to school more easily. Yet the school did provide us the appreciation latter for working very hard to contribute to the community and empower students as well as fixed the bikes for the students. Furthermore, the PB team encouraged all the students to go to school regularly. We had group photos together before we finished our activity. Please have a look at some photos and the attendance list below.

23 bicycles were distributed to rural students in March.

We also taught 45 students on that day. We started teaching from 8:00 AM until 9:10 AM. We taught the students about:

Environment – Are you helping our environment? Learn what habits can improve the environment

Nutrition food - Picture of different foods from all the food group, Food plate has different type of fruit/food

Hygiene - Hand washing and nails cleaning, Bathing – Understand why they should take a bath every day

 Bike Caring - Your bicycle, taking care of your bikes

 About Solar Buddy Light - How to use Solar Buddy Lights and benefits of Solar Buddy Lights

At the beginning, everyone met each other at the CRST campus at about 6:00 AM to have breakfast at a food shop, but before that, we took all the stuff to put behind the bus such as materials, tools, and flags for our event. After breakfast, we went through the road to reach the school at about 8:00 AM as the school is quite far from the town (78 km).

When we arrived there, the director was out there, preparing the students and giving us a warm greeting. All the contributors were gathered and after the teacher finished preparing, we asked all the contributors to go into their part we had divided and discussed. The activity was going smoothly because everyone was joyfully involved with us, especially the guests, they were so delighted to participate with us. As well as before, we had spent around an hour finishing everything including the class, restoring the bikes, and preparing the place for speeches. There were two classes with 2 pairs of educators who taught students about the environment, about food, especially about bikes. The students enjoyed the classes. After that, they played some games to refresh themselves. The lessons were so interesting and after we provided the school materials to the students who did not get the bikes, everyone came out and all PB teams assisted us to gather everyone at the table to open the remarks. We invited all the guests—school director, commune chief, village chief, parents, and other relevant people—to the meeting place and gave a short speech before handing bikes to the students. Firstly, Tangly gave a great speech to introduce our NGO background and the vision and mission of PB to the listeners to get to know who we are. Then, we had quick expressions and gratitude from some important representatives, including the teacher, commune chief, and our guests, at our event.

Last, we also took individual and group pictures with the guests and students who got the bikes in every 3 families. The final step was giving those 23 students bicycles and allowing them to ride to their residences. We are the Project B team and are so excited to have the opportunity to help these wonderful students. Before coming back, we also thank all the teachers who have been waiting for us so far and all our contributors for all their assistance today. Lastly, we went back to Siem Reap and had lunch together. We really appreciate all the contributions from the bottom of the hearts of each participant. Without these people, the event could not run smoothly. Thank you so much!!