The Cambodia Rural School Project
The Kuniko Uchida-Kato School
Mr. Chor, the director of The Kuniko-Uchida School. (May, 2001)
Mr. Chor is the school director of The Kuniko-Uchida School. He is 38 years old. Like most school directors in Cambodia, he is also a teacher in the school.
on the new school: | “I am very happy with the new school because it keeps everything inside safe.”
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on his past: | “I have been the school director for 11 years, and before that I was a teacher here for 11 years. I was here during the Khmer Rouge regime, and I become a teacher because I love this job.”
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on the worst aspect of his job: | “The most difficult thing about my job is my low salary. It is not enough to support my family.”
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on his students’ favorite subjects: | “The students like studying all of the subjects because they want to learn these subjects to move up to the next grade.”
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on the future of Cambodia: | “I think Cambodia is growing up because we now have political parties. Step by step, we are becoming a democracy.”
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message to the donor: | “I want to thank Yukiko Muraki very much for this new school. The villagers here could never building like this” |