Lucky D Draw Eve SDC, K ent at CM Kaos Kro MAC So olor

 Lucky Draw
D
Eveent at CM
MAC So
ocial Dev
velopmeent Center (CMA
ACSDC, Kaos
K
Kro
olor Disttrict, Batttambang
g Provin
nce
On
n 19 Septem
mber 2014, nearly
n
1,3000 CMAC
sta
aff, who vo
oluntarily purchased
p
plots of
lan
nd
at thee CMAC Social
S
Deveelopment
Ceenter titled
d Natural Morodok
k Techo
villlage, partiicipated in an event of lucky
draws to recceive their purchased
d land in
Prey Toteun
ng Villagee, Chhnall Moan
ommune,
Koas
Kralor
Co
District,
Ba
attambang Province. This
T
excitin
ng lucky
draw event was presiided over by H.E
He
eng Ratan
na, Delega
ate of thee Royal
Go
overnment of Cambo
odia, in charge as Diirector Gen
neral of th
he Cambod
dian Mine Action
A
Ceenter (CMA
AC).
Th
he 1,700 ha land is div
vided into housing an
nd agricultture plots ffor about 1,300 familees. It is
inttended to provide
p
CM
MAC staff with
w affordaable and pro
oductive lan
nd for theirr families to
o settle
an
nd generatee incomes frrom agricu
ulture activiities on thee land. Thiss is a great historic eveent for
CM
MAC staff, most of wh
hom did no
ot have theiir own land
d before due to multi-y
year emplo
oyment
in CMAC seerving in mobile un
nits. CMAC
C will asssist the com
mmunity with
w
comm
munity
deevelopmentt initiativess including
g the publiic infrastru
uctures, sch
hools, hosp
pital, clean water
system as weell as irrigaation system
m for the b
benefits of the familiees who livee in the villlage as
weell as the neearby villag
ges.
Du
uring the ev
vent at the CMAC Naatural Moro
odok Techo
o Village, H.E
H Heng Ratana
R
states that
thiis is just th
he first stag
ge in CMA
AC Commu
unity Devellopment Prroject. Therre is still a lot of
wo
ork to be done
d
in the future. Th
here is a plaan to have electricity,, clean water system, model
ho
ouses, and other
o
infrasstructures. He notes th
hat the land
d area of th
he village iss more than
n 1,700
ha
a. Currently
y, close to 1,,300 CMAC
C families w
will get theiir land plotss.
“It is a great
g
pleasu
ure to see alll deminer ffamilies
come to participate in the even
nt with hoppe and
H adds th
hat the luck
ky draw fo
or land
smiles”. He
plots is conducted ffairly and trransparentlly. The
result of the lucky draw is based on his or her
luck; no one could predict beeforehand if
i they
would geet the plot o
of their favo
orite site.
H.E. Hen
ng Ratana also notes that a Can
nadian
Charity donates
d
ov
ver 10,000 USD
U
to con
nstruct
two model housess, which will
w
be ussed as
munity
administtrative builldings for the comm
villlage. There are also pledges by
y a Japaneese charity to fund th
he construcction of a school
bu
uilding with
h 06 classro
ooms; and CMAC is w
working to
o raise fund
d to constru
uct a clean
n water
faccility for th
he village. Moreover,
M
C
CMAC
is planting
p
up
p to 12,000 trees along
g the roads in the
villlage and encourage
e
the familiees to plantt more on their land propertiess. These treees are
vo
oluntarily co
ontributed by CMAC staff.
Att the end of
o the even
nt, H.E Hen
ng Ratana
expresses hiis sincere appreciatio
on to all
MAC staff at
a the villag
ge site for th
heir effort
CM
an
nd hard work to suppo
ort the Dev
velopment
Viillage of CM
MAC Natu
ural Morod
dok Techo
in Prey Totteung Villlage Chhn
nal Moan
Co
ommune
Koas
Krolor
K
Diistrit
in
Ba
attambang province.
p