Expatriates in Cambodia open two floating community houses

The Association of Overseas Vietnamese in Cambodia has inaugurated two floating community houses as gifts from the Ho Chi Minh City Association in Support of Poor Patients.

These houses were built for Vietnamese fishermen in two communes in Kal Dieng district, Pursat province, to hold meetings, cultural activities, wedding parties or memorial ceremonies.

The house for Vietnamese fishermen in Koh Keo commune is worth US$10,000, covering over 60 sq. m. while the other for those in Koh K’Ek commune was built at a cost of US$8,000.

This is the second time Kal Dieng district has received floating houses from their homeland. The two previous houses are used as Vietnamese language classrooms, one of which was a gift from the late Prime Minister, Vo Van Kiet.

Nguyen Thi Lien, Deputy President of the Kien Giang provincial Association in Support of Poor Patients, promised to raise more funds back home to help upgrade the two old floating houses.