Here I was sitting in a
van and try to listen to some good music while on the other hand the van was
packed and their music were on full blast, they even had a TV playing karaoke.
My poor Mp3 player was not up to drill out all the noise. Let me tell you;
“Andrea Botchelli” is no good to listen in this van, every time he breath you
can hear the Khmer music, no you need something like “Dragon force” ( Christian
rock band for the old school readers) This music will definitely drill out all
the Khmer music but also blow your eardrums in the process. I was enjoying
myself rather by taking endless amounts of pictures of funny stuff happening on
the road while listening to both my music as well as Khmer music.
Ratanakiri was indeed a blast. I joined up with friend James
again and we hit the road on small bikes to Koklak. It is rainy season and not
necessary to say how slippery the road was. A visit to the director of the Provincial Hospital, just confirm our good
relationship. He even complimented me on stitching the boy the last time I was
there. Wow!! I thought I did a bad job but he say it was good…… He also advice
as to visit another village next time I will be there.
Once again I was
amazed by the way James communicates to the tribal people. I think to be
honest; all the girls just come to be seen by James!! Wish I can work with
James all the time, but I am so proud of him that he have a good job with a
good NGO and is doing good. We saw a lot of people and could help a lot of sick
people. All in all it was great to be amongst the tribal people again. I was
sad to hear all the inside stories of how these tribal people are forced ff
their land and get less and less to live on. The amount of land that is sold to
foreign companies are staggering and the clearing of the forest is even more
heart breaking. We pray that our God will help these people to make a
difference wherever/whoever they are.
Follow the link and see what is happening here:
I also had the pleasure
helping out my friends from AOC-Asian Outreach Cambodia. I am committed to go and
pull teeth at their small church plants, just outside of Phnom
Penh on the flood planes next to the mighty Mekong River.
Its flood season but nothing proof to be a problem for the Defender. I am
amazed how many come for these outreach. AOC is already busy many years to help
people in this area and that make it so easy as the people know and trust them.
Shows again that we need to build good and solid foundations by making good
relationships with the people and the time will tell….. I just love helping
these friends of mine as they are such humble people. Go AOC go…… http://www.aocam.org/
Toinette is doing well
with the clinic. It still is a place where ladies can come and get something
for free and also receive the love of Christ and a practical way. Tuesday
clinic turn out to be more a children’s checkup clinic than prenatal but it is
necessary to listen and help with these problems as times are tuff and nobody
have money to spend on illness. By witnessing to them we also need to help with
severe cases and that take us to hospital and back, but praise to God for that.
Like the girl they met while
visiting small Channy. The Khmers say she:” Forgot her body and jump from the
truck”. Well she broke one arm and possible the other one as well and got some
bad shavings on the face. She went to the government hospital but they turned
her down because she did not have money for an x-ray. Now she just put some herbal
remedy on her broken arms and hopes for the best. Mordegai will bring her
tomorrow to a hospital to be seen by a doctor and help her to recover.
We ask prayer a while ago for
Phokana who is HIV+ and already gave away 2 children to her mum to look after
and nr.3 was in question now. She got linked with an organization that place
Khmer children into local Khmer homes. She signed the baby over to be fostered,
as her mum is not able to look after another baby.
Channy is doing not so
good at this time. You will remember that she was the small baby that weight only
1,3kg. She is very sick and after being to a Doctor the bad news is, she is
blind because she was born so premature. It places a heavy burden on the family
as they do not have money so that mum can stay at home to look after Channy.
Jenny, the nurse that does all
the baby checkups, started a Youth group for girls between 10-12 years old. She
had her first students on Saturday and it proof to be a winner. We pray that
this will be a stepping stone to prepare these little girls for what is
happening to their bodies. In this society, these girls are very vulnerable to
be taken advantage off.
Thank you for standing with us in prayer and support towards
us and the people we are trying to help.
Love to all
Rossouw clan
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