The CFPD Aided Livelihood-improvement Projects Completed and the Handover Ceremony is Carried out in Takeo Province, Cambodia Time：2018/02/13

On February 2, 2018, the CFPD aided Sok An Tonleap High School “Friends on the Silk Road” project and Small Agricultural Water Conservancy Project in Kirivong District, Takeo Province is completed and the handover ceremony is carried out in the Sok An Tonleap High School. Sosoken, Cambodian Congressman, Yu Xiaoxuan, Deputy Excutive Secretary General of CFPD, Kermeat Viseth, Chairman of Civil Society Alliance Forum, Soocoon, Governor of Kirivong District, and Douvenar, Chairman of Human Rights Development Federation, attended the ceremony and delivered speeches. More than 800 people like students from Sok An Tonleap High School and local residents attended the ceremony. The atmosphere was warm and friendly.

Congressman Sok Soken, the son of the late deputy prime minister Sok An of Cambodia, said that it is the wish of the Deputy Prime Minister of Sok An to solve the practical difficulties of the people of Takeo Province. Today, the successful handover of two livelihood-improvement projects that aided by CFPD and promoted by Deputy Prime Minister Sok An has not only brought tangible benefits to the grassroots people of Cambodia, but also further strengthened the sincere friendship between the Chinese and Cambodian peoples. Here, on behalf of the deputy prime minister of Sok An and the people of Takeo province, I would like to express my gratitude to the Chinese people for their generous donation.

Kermeat Viseth, Chairman of Civil Society Alliance Forum, ??said that the Foundation went deep into Takeo province to carry out livelihood projects, which showed the inseparability of China-Cambodia relations. The Alliance Forum has long been committed to promoting exchanges between Cambodian civil society and international organizations, pushing forward the development of all circles of Cambodian society, coordinating and solving practical problems for the people, and deepening cooperation with China will be the focus of the next step of the CSAF.

In December 2016, the Foundation signed a cooperation agreement with the Cambodian Human Rights Development Association, a member organization of the Civil Society Alliance Forum, to build a second-floor teaching building in Sok An Tonleap High School, Kirivong District of Takeo Province, Cambodia. There are 12 classrooms, 4 bathrooms and supporting basic teaching facilities such as tables, chairs and blackboards; fund the construction of an agricultural irrigation and drainage pumping station in the Takeo province, which includes one pump room, two sluice gates and three fifty-horsepower motors. The two projects were officially started in February 2017 and completed in December. When it is activated, tens of thousands of local students and farmers will benefit.

The mainstream media such as the Cambodian Bayon TV and the national TV have actively reported on the activities.