Halloween fundraising

This year, we decided to celebrate halloween differently. In conjunction with USP cinnamon college event in CTPH, we set up a photo booth with our life size super heroes!

Thank you everyone who came down and support! I am sure the team had a lot of fun planning, executing and wrapping up the whole event.

our very own OH-SO-BUFF heroes!

                                                   

Till the journey continues next time!(:

For more Information

Last Thursday we had a a sharing at Cinnamon College at Utown and this is more information about the project! The content in the PDF would be some information about the project last year and our new project this year.

click on this to find out more!

project then and now

Last year our project was inclined in Edible Landscaping.The idea was to create a landscape, in this case which is vertical gardening and trellies to help supply part of the food supply to the school and to beautify the compounds around the school by providing shade and growing creepers.

We visited PSE again during the recce trip in June and the fruits of our last year's project was evident.

Here are some pictures!

An area that we did trellies was the school motocycle parking space which are used by the teachers and students that rides to school. Since there was no shelter initially, the motorcycles seats gtes pretty warm in the day. Also, the initial trees in the compound was not growing well due to lack of proper gardening skills and environment. As such, we built a mini garden around the compound and wiring so the creepers are able to grow up and provide shade for the motorcycles.

The picture on the right was the picture taken during the recce trip in June and the growth of the creepers are really wonderful and the personel in PSE actually extended the wiring from the shelter to the next building creating a canopy at the pathment below.

 Vertical wiring was also one of our project that we did in PSE. The main idea of this is to beautify the classrooms blocks in the school. Wires are drilled down the classrooms corridors and creepers were plant to enable vertical gardening. When we left in december, the wiring for this is halfway through and there wasn't any plants growing yet. However, we were happy to see the wires to be filled with greenaries like the picture on the right! The plants bear products like lady's finger and chilli!

 These two photos are product of the own changes PSE decided to make. When we arrive in December, this was not one of our project sites and was just an empty plot of land beside the canteen. However, during the recce trip we realise that it was turned into a garden! these 9 rows of soil is used to plant herbs, fruits and vegetables like corn. This area allows the students and teachers to be in community involvement activites and allow they to gain experience interacting and gardening. Students will help out whenever they can or are tasked to do so. We were happy that our project continues even after we left Cambodia! (:

This is a section of smile village. Smile village is where the people in the slums will live when they get eradicated form their homes. It was just a bare land when we came for the project last year and this year, there were houses up and this is where we will be working this year to bring our past experience from Edible Landscaping and from the communities in Singapore to help in the livelihood of the newly formed Village!





Introducing to you the SUP-C'13 team! You will have just as much fun or even more than what we had!(:

SUP-C running for the second year!

first and foremost, allow me to introduce ourselves. Step-Up Project Cambodia started last year where we work with Solutions To End Poverty(STEP),an NGO and their partnering school PSE. Our project is about edible landscaping where we aim to create a prototype garden that can help ease the food scarcity and beautify the school. The skills and lesson learnt from the creating of this prototype will be transferred to SMILE village which was created with the collaboration with Habitat for Humanity and Pour un Sourire d’Enfant (PSE). 

A little bit about our partners: 

STEP started in 2009 with the vision to create a Poverty-free, sustainable communities where people live with dignity and in harmony. STEP is currently working with Pour un Sourire d’Enfant (PSE), a NGO in Cambodia, to relocate impoverished families, displaced due to urban development, to SMILE vallage a 2.2 hectors of land at Dongkor district, Phnom Penh. Most of the families that lives in slums, scavenge and collect garbage for a living, and all live in severe poverty. Hence, there is a need to locate them and build them a community. The families will also receive skills-training, community-building programs as well as alternative livelihood programs to ensure that the community is sustainable after the NGO leave. 

For this project, STEP is collaborating with many other NGOs besides PSE, ranging from the Department of Landscape Architecture from the National University of Singapore (NUS), Garden and Landscape Centre, architecture firm Collective Studio, Grenzone and Habitat for Humanity. The significance of this project goes beyond solving a housing problem. It is also more than rebuilding lives of an entire community. STEP hopes that it will eventually lead to a prototype for sustainable community development for the poor throughout Cambodia.

PSE: Pour un Sourire d'Enfant 

Pour un Sourire d'Enfant (PSE), a French humanitarian association, which has been working for the last sixteen years in Cambodia, has a vision to empower of each Cambodian child to become a master of his or her own destiny . PSE helps extremely impoverished children, who do not go to school, who are mistreated and forced to work in the most distressing and dangerous conditions as scavengers. Today, PSE has more than 450 local employees in Cambodia who are employed as teachers, trainers, social workers, doctors, cooks, program coordinators and many others. They provide the students with education to help them break the poverty cycle and move on to improve their standard of living. 

Collaborating with PSE in this project will allow participants a platform to interact and understand the combodian society better. As the students in the higher grades and vocational school is around the same age as the participants, it is easier to interact and learn from each other. Participants will also learn the roles and effectiveness of an NGO. 

                              Here is a video of last year's project and fun!

who are we: 

      Qiu Quan (Year 2,Economics) Leader and Izzati (Year2, Chemsitry) Co-leader