Finished!

4 August 2006 Page 2 - the opening ceremony.

The bridge is Look what we've managed to do together! And when I say we I mean you, me and the people of Prasat Char village. At last, after many days of hard work for all concerned the bridge is finally finished, and just in time too. The water underneath had started to rise and was already knee deep.

I'd like to thank all of you who helped make this bridge a reality, without your financial support the people of Prasat Char Village would still only have the option of crossing via the two or three planks that served as the old bridge.

The approaches to the bridge nearing completion.	At last, vehicles can now cross.	Thanks to your help we've gone from this..... to this.
For the last couple of weeks we paid the villagers with rice. This guy is transporting 375kg of rice out to the bridge for us.	Carrying a 50 kg bag of rice over the old bridge would have been a lot more challenging than it is now.	The finishing touches - our sign goes up.
* The wording that is on the sign is written below.	Time to celebrate!	An added bonus is that the villagers have almost finished the road into the village.

* THE SIGN SAYS: "This bridge was build in 2006 by the people of Prasat Char Village and Helping Hands NGO. It is named after Brian and Jennifer Swift and family, from Queensland , Australia , whose very generous donation mad eit possible to build the bridge.

It was also made possible by the donations of other generous individuals around the world."

Click here to go to page two of this newsletter to see photos of the opening ceremony.

Click on the following links to read more about our bridge project:

Why we need to build a bridge

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Helping Hands Cambodia is a registered in the Kingdom of Cambodia as a Non-Government Organisation.

Some of the very generous people who have donated money for the bridge so far are:

Barry and Kay Groves (thanks Mum and Dad!)

The Swift Family

The Short Family

Graham Day

Morris and Jeanne Jones

Shirley, Peter in Darwin, Peter in Queensland

Jacqueline Gray, Helen

Niek and Dalin

Abelard & Augustine Narcida

Nana Hill

Matthew Firth

Shaun and Donna

Many anonymous donors

Anna, Mandy M, Miss Catherine S

Bernie, Petra, Mereya, Sandy

Leonie and Carolyn

Mandy - the Sunshine Coast's award winning bridal florist. www.mandartau.com

Sandy D, Steph A

Tanya Chesterton-Smith and family

Carly and Tracey Jackson

Camille, Paul, Isabelle and Madeleine O'Reilly

"Daddy Kool" from Darwin

Noosa Permaculture Group

Meridian State College

Anne and Neil Mathison

n-government organisation in the Kingdom of Cambodia.