By Catherine Louise Geach | Founder
Dear friends of Kampot Traditional Music School,
Thank you so much for your recent support, especially those of you who give regularly each month and those who participated in our special fundraising day on May 13th!
As you all know our Outreach program has several programs, not only for our 400 disadvantaged children from Kampot town and rural areas, but also our 10 blind Mohori music students and our 20 scholarship students from very poor and vulnerable rural backgrounds.
In this month's report, we would like to especially remember one of our scholarship students, Pheap. First she came to our school on our free arts training program for children from rural areas including Chumkriel and TrayKoh. Our school coordinated with the local head monk of the Pagoda school and local primary state school director. Pheap came as a little girl around the year 2000, small and quiet, but soon she shone at Pin Peat music and revealed a great talent and determination. It then came to light that she had significant family problems with an abusive and alcoholic father and was extremely poor. It was decided by her family and our school that Pheap should come to live at our school as a scholarship student under our protection.
Not only did Pheap excel at music, she also attained top grades in her academic studies, going on to gain her high school Baccalaureate and win a place at the Angkor Khemara University of Kampot. Her difficult family status and her talent earned her a scholarship at university. She graduated in 2012. Today she is an accountant at a local school, she is married and has a baby son. Pheap often drops by our school to say hello to her former teachers, because we are a part of her family. Pheap (which is not her full name), kindly gave permission for us to write about her in this month's report.
Invitation by Ministry of Culture to perform for ASEAN Conference
Our school was invited to select one of our most talented students from our Mohori music program for blind children, to perform participate in the ASEAN Conference to be held in Thailand in July/August of this year. Our student who is now an adolescent will be accompanied by our Pin Peat teacher and a carer. Together with our Pin Peat teacher he will perform 5 Mahori songs for the conference and then participate in workshops. The ASEAN Conference "Art for All" is on the occasion of Her Royal Highness Princess Sirindihorn's 60th birthday and is being held to promote the important cultural imput by disabled artists in Southeast Asia. We all feel so excited and honoured by this invitation and the possibility to promote Cambodian traditional music abroad! We promise to post photos after the event!!
Please do keep on supporting us. Your help is truly precious and provides an important part of our needs, helping us to reach out to so many children in Kampot!
From all of us at the Kampot Traditional Music School - Thank You!
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