A free day in Phnom Penh

Hey,

Having spent a few days wondering through the streets of phnom penh i came across something that intrigued me an advert to volunteer for the day with choice charity, help out for the day starting at 9am and ending at 4pm, $5 for travel costs. I already had my next week planned out but knew i would be back in phnom with some free time in a week or so and having already done all the main tourist draws decided to give it ago.

I will try and keep this short and sweat
So i went along to the and met the guys (a friendly bunch of ex-pats) and off we went to there base on the outskirts of phnom penh. Found myself immediately playing football with a group of kids after being shown around the centre. From there we dropped a group of children home from school and started the water run delivering safe drinkable water to villages without the luxury of mains water. Then back to base camp for lunch, then to help stock up a new medical cabinate. Followed by another school run (without these school runs i seriously doubt whether the children would be in education). The last trip of the day was off to a different village to give a mother some medicine for her sick child, then home.

Soo im not going to say ive helped change the world but it was very refreshing to see good people making a difference and nice to see a different side to cambodia however shocking.

Its a pretty good $5 day trip

For anyone interested, ive not covered half of the project the charity are involved in take a look for yourself http://www.choice-cambodia.org/

Cheers

Dan