Category: Exploration

Explorations are project-based experiences during which students work together in groups to explore a relevant, often complex question, problem or challenge. This project-based learning is almost always enhanced with intensive activities that involve student immersion in real-world experiences outside of the classroom.

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Youth Film Fastival

My name is Vitou Nun, I am one of 11 organizers who are currently planning a new Youth Film Festival (YFF) that will be hosted in Phnom Penh on the 8th of June, 2019. Our goal is to introduce film making to students from government schools, to contribute to the growth of our national film industry, to give the students possible future careers, and to open up their minds to different ways of expressing their thoughts or addressing different problems in society. With this aim, we are working to teach and guide them through the basics of scriptwriting, film producing and editing.

 

In order to make this project successful, we have been to several government schools in the provinces to provide film workshops, which lasted for two days. After the workshop, the students were required to submit their films in Khmer. The top two films from each school will be showcased alongside three short films from the Chaktomuk Film Festival.

 

I am writing to you in the hopes that UNDP  will help us to fund our project so that we can spark the interest of young Cambodians in the film industry. All sponsorship funding is directly invested into the festival’s catering and operations. Areas of expenditure include:

 

  1. Theater rental
  2. Certificates of appreciation
  3. Transportation and food for students, who are directors and editors of their film from 3 provinces: Kampong Thom, Kampong Speu, and Kandal
  4. t-shirts for organizers

 

Please let us know if you need more information; we would love to help you understand more about the project and its mission if needed.

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Banana Farming in Cambodia

Introduction

In 2018, Cambodia exported 30,000 tonnes of banana export to China. According to the General Department of Agriculture Rattanakkiri, Kratie and Kampot provinces and have a total area of 4,996 hectors for survival amount of the 30,00 tonnes to export. Cambodia is not just known as a banana growing country there more fruit that is popular such as; Durian, coconut, mangosteen, lychee, longan, rambutan, mango, jackfruit, and watermelon. Banana is loaded with fiber so it is good to slow down digestion and to keep you feeling full for many hours. One banana can create 10 percent of the daily fiber requirement of everyone who eats it. There are Vitamin B6 that can help to protect against type 2 diabetes and aid in weight loss, according to Flores. In general, bananas are a great weight loss food because they taste sweet and are filling which is really helpful. There are three topics in my study: the cost of farming, disease, and marketing.

 

Methodology

In this research, we collected data from a successful farmer who owns three banana farm in his area so all the information is based on an interview. In this research project, I mainly focused on collecting data and analyzing the data from this farm in Cambodia.

Results: Diseases (Fusarium Wilt)

The main disease affecting bananas is Fusarium Wilt. Fusarium “is a large group of filamentous fungi (mold), part of a group often referred to hyphomycetes, widely distributed or survived in soil that cause diseases.” Wilt (Verb)(of a plant, leaf, or flower) become limp through heat, loss of water, or disease; droop.

 

Fusarium Wilt in Khmer called “ក្រាល” had been a major problem of all Cambodia farmer. This disease is so infective to after one and another because they transmitted through soil. This disease happen to stop banana growing and farmer have to cut it off or else they would be transmitted. After the interview one of the farmers said that there are at least 5% of this disease transmitted to one and the other.​ This disease causes the banana leaf to be orange color and it is so important for the farmer to be more careful because the banana tree that contains this disease will never be harvested. This could lead to a bigger disaster in the future if there is no solution to every farmer who grows banana. It is not just the problem to all the farmer also to the international export might not be able to meet the demand.

 
This is a baby banana plant that contains Fusarium Wilt.

Results: Costs of Farming & Wholesale

Banana normally spends 6 – 7 months to harvest. This type of plant needs a lot of fertilizer (nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium) and water because they can easily get affected by the sunlight. The farmer that we interviewed start farming since 1993 but until 2005 he first started to grow banana. Before he grows: Cauliflower, beans, lettuce and does crop rotation. He said that crop rotation is a wonderful way to get a better quality of different train. Crop Rotation means “a method of farming where a number of different plants are grown one after the other on a field so that the soil stays healthy and fertile”. This farmer did a really good job of keep track of what is his future planting. His method is crop rotation which means that every year or difference of time grows different things. Crop rotation means the systematic planting of different crops in a particular order over several years in the same growing space. Therefore Organic soil fertility, avoid or reduce problems with soil-borne disease and soil-dwelling insect and replenish the soil. The farmer said that  “This method had a good impact on his farm because he always gets a good income from a growing variety of vegetable.

This graph showing the expense of a single banana farm.

This graph shows the percentage of where the expend for banana farm go.

 

The expend that take up more percentage is fertilizer/food. Therefore a lot of farmer in Cambodia have commonly used a lot of fertilizer which leads to the price of the fertilizer more expensive.

 

Banana farm in Cambodia has been a new major product to import to our biggest investment country “China and Hong Kong” stated Phnom Penh Post Article. Bananas have potential and there is a high demand for the international market. At the same time, farmer sell in the local market around there are especially when they got no transportation budget. Some farmers are sell in the city where there are many people who demand the banana.

A farmer said “ I sell banana in the Nek Meas Market (នាគមាស) because there are a lot people need the banana that is why I decided to go to the city.

At the same time, the Cambodia market still in a limited situation therefore not too many market or middlemen that accept to sell banana. Some farmers still have to sell their own.

 

Conclusion

All farmer should know what they are paying for if they got a bigger farm in order to see the profit without  losing any money Cambodian farmer needs more knowledge about the disease that they faced also the market of Cambodia

Works Cited

“Green Banana Tree · Free Stock Photo.” Free Stock Photos, www.pexels.com/photo/green-banana-tree-214158/.

Sokhorng, Cheng. “Local Firm Hopes New Banana Crop Will Be Appealing to China, Business, Phnom Penh Post.” Local Firm Hopes New Banana Crop Will Be Appealing to China, Business, Phnom Penh Post, Post Media Co Ltd 888 Building H, 8th Floor Phnom Penh Center Corner Sothearos & Sihanouk Blvd Sangkat Tonle Bassac 120101 Phnom Penh Cambodia, 13 Aug. 2018, www.phnompenhpost.com/business/local-firm-hopes-new-banana-crop-will-be-appealing-china.

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Rabies Mission at Chompous Kaek and Koh Krobey Pagodas

On February 8, 2018 my exploration team and I went to two different pagoda to work with Animal Rescue Cambodia which is an organization that vaccinate and do surgery for dogs and cats in Cambodia. As you know in Cambodia there are about 5 million dogs and half of them contain rabies so which mean you are 50% chance of getting rabies because of the bite etc. So Animal Rescue Cambodia and our Liger Leadership Adcademy team went to two that nearby our school to inject the rabies vaccination for free. This is Animal Rescue Cambodia mission but as the Liger students we would love to make change and also would love help them to find the better to inject the pets because we plan alot things to help many different organization or institute to help to reduce the rabies virus in Cambodia. Also I am the one doing the most vaccinate to the dogs and cats. I enjoyed working as a wet to help to reduce the 50% risk of rabies. I love being as a animal wet and I wish somehow in the future I can do this as a part time job because I really love to reduces the problem in Cambodia.

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Role in Bike Business

As a marketing planner, I am taking a responsible on advertise our company to the tourists. Also work in team to determine the best and creative ways to advertise our services such as creating a website, social media, tripadvisor, fliers. We went to train with Soksabike which is a bike tour company located in Battambang and they mentioned that tripadvisor are really good ways to advertise so that people can rate our tour in that website. Also we are finding different partnership such as Motor driver, hotels, bike company, bike tour company. All the income that we from this business we will divide to different section; pay for tour guide, price for rent the bike, explain during the tour, salary to the employees. The interests that we find from the tour will help the students continue their study also run the business.

 

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Bike Business

One of the Liger Leadership Academy Explorations is starting their own bike tour business. The major theme of their tour is to share every day Cambodian life and changes that are occurring with tourist visiting the Phnom Penh area. Funds from the tour will be used to run the business and pay Liger change agent tour guides funds that can be used for future studies or for starting a business. The 13 students, involved in this Exploration, are passionated about this business, especially going out to develop an interesting route and tour.

 

This group went to Battambang to collaborate with Soksabike, a social enterprise bike tour business. The objectives of Soksabike is to give tourists the opportunity to see the real Cambodia, put tourist dollars back into the local community, contribute to helping the local community through job creation, demonstrate responsible tourism practices, and contribute to Battambang’s economic growth.

 

This Exploration attended a 3-day workshop hosted by Soksabike.  This included experiencing two of the popular tours selected by tourist:  Local Livelihood Tour and the Walk and Bike Tour.  Soksabike shared their expertise in designing and managing a bike tour business and shared strategies for responsible tourism, social entrepreneurship, marketing, booking, business operation, and bike maintenance.

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Khmer Rouge

Khmer Rouge exploration is 1 out of 25 of exploration in this years that really important to learn. Mostly this topic is about Khmer Rouge regime and how people in that time live also to gather people perspective.

 

This Khmer Rouge exploration is really interesting to learn it also bring some of the worst picture that we ever seen before but we still happy to learn and share to people what we got. Our exploration have a lot of small trip to go to listen and visit some of the history place and people who have been in Khmer Rouge Regime to gather information for our final product. We also have one big trip to go to Siem Reap and Oddar Meanchey to visit war museum and also to interview people that have been alive in that time. At Odor Meanchey especially at the border there are a lot of old people that left from Khmer Rouge regime so this a good resource to interview them as our knowledge. After we back from the big trip we now started to make final product for the sharing day to share to everyone what we have done for this past 7 week of study about Khmer Rouge.

 

This Exploration show me a lot of history that happened in Khmer Rouge. People know this a lot but still some people don’t know how it feel like to be a person in that time because there were a lot of secret information so we need to ask a lot of people to get clear information.

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Tresh Track FLL

  • The plastic problem
  • How plastic affect the health
  • What is the solution
  • 3R reduce reuse recycle

We want to let people know how to change their behavior and would like them know how bad the plastic were. We also want to give what the information that we have been research to the competition.

                                    Solution of the plastic

Educate people by waste

  • In each country is have the schools and in the school is have education but instead of learning we can teach a student how to use the plastic well. We want to let the kids know a lot about plastic and how bad it is. It not just tell how bad the plastic is but tell them how to use the bad thing become the good thing. First step we can donate to plastic or something that can recycle to the school that can make them feel want to change the world and also if they were adult they will try to do what they have been doing before. We can also try to make a book that tell to recycle the plastic so they will got a lot of Idea to try to recycle.

3R (reduce reuse recycle)

  • The solution of the plastic is 3R reduce reuse recycle. Reduce is one way that people can try to use the plastic less. It was very large topic that people should know we need to use it less because when we use it a lot it will become earth plastic so it affect a lot to people and not just you must remember. Reuse is the part of 3R so it mean whatever the plastic is we can use it again like bottle and plastic bag. Recycle is the most important that people should know all around the world. Recycle when we use the plastic we can make a plastic that we use it already to make a different thing that can help us. It also when we recycle the plastic we will know how important to recycle plastic it is. Solution is
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Entrepreneurship

The main thing that i learn from Entrepreneurship is i can understand how to make a business and to get a explain how to find a own idea. We can know what is good for business and what is a bed business we also want to get benefit by selling our product by 3D printing. I’m in that team i was know many thing that about social and market to learn and have a short trip but i feel get a lot of information.

I have one team call Speaker group and we make a product by 3D printing and also we have to make a blog and write a term nearly every day in the one that make a blog.

The 6 term that i think important for me is:

  • TARGET because it make my goal clear and no confut also i can sell a lot of product by making a good goal.
  • Prototype.   Is a good thing that important for me because when we try to make a good product we need to make a Prototype it easy to make.
  • VALIDATION BIAS MARKET Profit/ loss is make me have a good and clearly goal and i have been know alot of thing in Entrepreneurship i hope that i will know more and make me have more knowledge.

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This is a blog that i made.

speakercambodia.weebly.com

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Life on the Border Description

Exploration Name: Life on Border

Exploration Dates: March 10 – May 2

Number of Students: 15

Essential Questions/Areas:

(1) What do students know about planning and running Exploration projects?

(2) What are the steps of running Exploration project?

(3) How to keep track ofworking process?

(4) How to use resources efficiently and transparently?

(5) How is the situation of people living along the border such as: education, health, economic and immigration?

(7) Why do people move there?

(8) What are the advantages and disadvantages of living there?

 

Description:

In our Life On Border group we learned a lot of  things about border. Students know how to run the Exploration very well. Students know the goal to run their project. The first step that we can run our project is we learn about our goal. Our goal is Project Summary, Project Outcome, Project Mentors, Field Experiences, 21st Century Learning Skills and Core Curriculum Areas. After we learned about our goal we planned and thought. The situation of the people that live along the border is normal. Some people don’t have money so they don’t have work. Some people go to find work at Thailand so when the people go already some of the people can’t come back. People’s health is not so good at the border because they don’t have money to buy their food. They move to the border because if the people have the money they come to border to sell something because the border have a lot of people came from Russia to the Cambodia. So that why people want to make their business there. The advantage to live there is there are not a lot of bad people at there so it safe for people. The disadvantage to live there is if people don’t have money and they don’t have work they will not be safe for their life. We went to the border to learn and we saw some people have a work and some people don’t have work. Some people have a work but it like cart worker it is not easy to get the money. We interview the cart worker and the sellers. We went to casino to visit, but we didn’t get a chance to go in.

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Community English Description

Exploration Name: Community English

Exploration Dates: August 12th-September 16th

Number of Students: 12

Essential Questions: Is there a best way to teach and learn?

How does knowing English effect change?

Description: Our first opening Exploration was Community English. In Community English we learned how to prepare and teach lessons to other people. But before we taught we needed to find the people who want to learn with us. To find the students we went into the community. After we knew clearly who wanted to come and learn at Liger, we gave the permission to their parents. So all of their parents can trust us. Then they let their child come and learn at Liger.

After we knew exactly who would come to learn, we prepared the lesson for them. When we went to the community to find them we also asked them what do they want to learn and that’s how we can prepare the lesson. When we finished planning the lesson we practiced before teaching students. We practiced with each other in our class. Even if we practiced with each other it does not mean that we are expert or good at it. So we had a trip to two schools. The schools are Northbridge and ICAN. At ICAN we met with one woman named Kate. Kate and Jessica prepared the schedule for us and some ICAN students to tour us around. We went there because we wanted to get experiences from the teachers at their school. Two to three days after that we went to Northbridge. At the end of the Exploration we asked some of the students how they felt and what did they think about our teaching (if its good or not). We gave them the lessons for free.