The new classrooms and toilets at Wat Mon Thyean Primary School are nearly 45% complete, as more brick is laid by local laborers and PHV Construction Company. School Support Committee members, with Bunrith, SCC's construction engineer, were busy this week completing inspections of the company's work for authorization of the first payment of $18,300 to the contractor. Meanwhile, parents and other residents of the Wat Mon Thyean community pooled $75, the first installment of their $250 contribution to the new classrooms. The money will be paid to PHV next week.

This week, the School Support Committee and SCC also signed a contract with a furniture-making operation in Svay Leu for the production of 37 student desks and benches, 4 teachers' desks and chairs, and a meeting table and 12 chairs for $2,608. The furniture is to be delivered in October, once the new classrooms are complete.

Classrooms take shape:

Three toilets take shape: