Another Friday, But Our Work Week is Not Over Yet

This morning we were greeted by a Perpetual Education Fund participant when we got to our office around 7:30.  She was looking to renew her loan for her final year of school.  We tried our best to help her, but it quickly became obvious that we needed Sameth, so she had to wait until he came just after 8:00.  We didn't feel so bad, when he told us that he spent an hour with her but was unable to get it all done.  There were logon issues, so she has to come back next week to try again.

We have a weekly staff meeting for the Cambodia Self Reliance Team, we use to have it on Mondays, but changed it to Tuesday because Phanna is not in the office on Mondays now.  Phanna had the Human Resource (HR) meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday and then Phanna and Sameth had an HR meeting yesterday for more than half of the day.  We finally had our weekly meeting this morning, but we had a lot to talk about, so it was important to hold.

We finished the basic report that we have been working on for the Area Office, now it is ready for us to all evaluate.  We also did some reports to get ready for our trip to the provinces this weekend, we are going to Kampong Cham and Kampong Thom. That should be an adventure.

We have watched a couple of small and very large building projects out on our balcony.  There were two small projects on the buildings next to ours. One they tore off the tile roof and eventually replaced it with a metal one.  On the other one they started from scratch and added the metal framing and sheeting to the roof and sides to create additional living space. We do not know if they are renting it or just enjoying it.  In the center of the collage is the skyline of Phnom Penh, there are a lot of buildings going up right now.  They are mainly foreign investors or what are referred to as tycoons in the local media.  As we have said before there are the very rich and very poor here in Cambodia.