Our Project Plan

We spent last week in Siem Reap on the Trailblazer Foundation's biosand filter training course. At the weekend we visited Cambodia's number one tourist attraction, the temples of Angkor Watt. The 1000 year old temples now lie, for the most part, in ruins but are awe-inspiring. They are very spread out and used to be the religious buildings in a city that house a million people. Nowadays they're hidden in the forest.

Now we are back in Phnom Penh meeting more international development organisations. This morning we worked out a project plan for the rest of our time here:
 We are planning to establish a retailer for ceramic water filters in the Poipet area and to help them promote them within nearby communities. We will be working entirely within the private sector and will not provide any sort of subsidy. We will be working with Hydrologic, a local private company (with good morals), that runs two cermaic filter factories and uses innovative methods to improve the filters and sell them as widely as possible.


We have purchased a filter for demonstration purposes, here we are pleased as punch with our new toy:

Now the hard work begins, but I am confident that we can make this work. Worryingly, although it feels like we have been here for no time at all, we only have six weeks left.

Angus