The Global Grant team for the Faribault Rotary Club just received good news. As of last week, the team will be receiving $23,500 from The District Rotary Foundation. This puts us in a very good spot to reach our goal of $75,000 for our water project in Ta Meun Province. The entire project will focus on four activities: water purification, pond expansion to trap more water, a community garden, and entrepreneurial training for the school committee at Ta Meun to ensure sustainability of the project. Interesting Fact About Cambodia: The Khmers of Cambodia were actually masters of controlling and directing water. The kingdom and its succeeding Khmer Empires came to prominence because of their abilities to create resevoirs to store water and redirect river flows to move building materials. Part of our project with Ta Meun will be to expand a pond so that enough water can be collected for the village. This thinking will be similar to that of what the Khmers had during the Angkor Period. | 