The Big Splash!
Bring Life to Cambodia
Hi! My name is Teuk!
My name means Water.
Cambodia
I live in Cambod
ia
I don’t want to BOAST, but I’m
pretty important. You need me to stay
ALIVE!BUT I LIKE TO HIDE.
I hide deep under the earth
75% of Cambodians cannot find enough of me every day?
This is my friend Chet Sakun.
He has 6 children and 3 hectares of land.
Before he found me…
…his family had to walk 3 – 6 hours a day to fetch water
This meant no chance of school.
They had no safe drinking water. The children got sick with diarrhea. Some children in the community died.
They could NEVER feel truly clean.
For most of the year, their land was too dry to grow crops.
They could grow rice only once a year, when it rained.
No crops to grow = no crops to sell
Chet Sakun’s income was about 50 cents a day.
To feed a family of 8.
Chet’s family were caught in a poverty trap.
Their bamboo shack could not keep them safe from the weather.
Chet left the family to find better work.
Some of the families in the village even had to sell their children to have enough income to survive.
Can you imagine how that must feel?
Then everything changed.
Tabitha Foundation gave the family a water pond.
The people from
Tabitha had to dig hard to find me!
LOOK WHAT HAPPENED…..
Chet Sakun’s income now =US$ 16.00 a day
WATER CHANGES LIVES
WATER CHANGES LIVES
“I don’t have to pay for food. I can pay my
expenses and I have money left in my pocket.”
Tabitha gives…
1. Family Wells
For families with less than one hectare of land
Families with 2-4 hectares of land can grow crops ALL YEAR ROUND
2. Field Wells
Where it’s really hard to dig for me in one place, I seep out into the pond!
3. Field Ponds
4. Open storage tanks
Where you cannot findme in the ground, only as RAIN…
US$ 350THE COST OF ONE WATER SOURCE
We have 150 families
waiting for a water source
every monthHelp us build them
HOW YOU CAN CHANGE LIVES
Make a SPLASH at your school for
Cambodia!
Join THE BIG SPLASH!!
Check out Tabitha-
Cambodia.org/bigsplash
NEED FUNDRAISING IDEAS?• Buy water not soft drinks for a week – donate
the difference
• ‘Unwanted Lost Property Water Bottle’ Sale• Hold a gardening bee – sell tickets• Sell tickets to a pool party• Hold a sponsored swim
• Drinks or ice lolly sale
We’ll record every water source your school buys on our BIG SPLASH website page. So you’ll know the difference you’re making!
For more information on what we do and how easy it is to join THE BIG SPLASH:
www.Tabitha-Cambodia.org/bigsplash