Physical Health Cambodia Project #32418

Clean Water for 500 Families in Cambodia

by Concordia Welfare and Education Foundation

Project Report | Aug 14, 2025
On a Cashew Farm Far from the City

By Kanhchana | CWEF Director in Cambodia

Sokhim with the biosand water filter you gave her!

I work on a cashew farm very far from downtown. During the rainy season, the road is slippery. It is difficult to live on the farm. However, we have no choice but to live in remote areas.

My husband got cholera and diarrhea because we drank water directly from the pond. Sometimes we boil the water, but that is difficult for my family. The hospital is so far from my village. It's about 80km to get to downtown. Nearby we only have a small clinic. When we got sick, the medical treatment was so expensive that we made the long trip to the hospital downtown anyway. This is because the health center in our village did not have enough of the medicine we needed.

After my family received a bio-sand water filter from CWEF, the water is now safe to drink. And the filter is easy to use. We don't have to spend any time boiling water. We are healthy again. We do not experience stomach pain, diarrhea, or other waterborne illnesses. So now my family has time to work in the field, and we can afford food and transportation to school for our children. We would like to thank you for your support in lessening our poverty by reducing our cost of living.

- Sokhim, villager from Kampong Thom province in Cambodia

What a difference clean water makes! Dirty water leads to illnesses. Illnesses keep capable hardworking people from working. Without work, there is less money for food, school, and everything else. Clean water starts a cycle of healing and hope! And in addition to Sokhim's own perseverance and hard work, you are one big reason that Sokhim has clean water to drink today and that her family is now healthy and thriving! That is something to feel great about! THANK YOU for generously and sacrificially giving to CWEF's clean water programs in Cambodia.

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