Basket and thatch making is also encouraged and supported by the project. In order to provide better drinking water, World Vision repaired some existing wells, lining them so they won't collapse in the rainy season. One of these wells now serves five families including Sokhin's. They don't have to walk miles to get drinking water anymore. Water gates, irrigation canals and bridges connecting the village were also repaired with World Vision assistance.
Clean water is only the beginning of improving the health of the children.
World Vision staff facilitate and even provide transport to ensure district-level government doctors travel to the villages and immunize all children and provide regular check ups. The Prasanth Sambo District Hospital has been provided extra beds. Children needing special attention are referred to national hospitals and World Vision pays treatment and transportation of the child and a parent. Mothers, particularly young ones, are taught birth spacing. Kompong Thom, like other provinces of Cambodia, is strewn with landmines.