Phnom
Penh:
At the night of November 14, 2011, the 33th group of 9 KOVs (Korea
Overseas Volunteers), 7 females and 2 males has successfully arrived at Phnom
Penh International Airport.
KOICA(Korea
International Cooperation Agency) Cambodia Office said that this group consists
of 7 Korean language teachers, 1 computer technology teacher, and 1 general
physical education teacher who will be dispatched to Cambodia Baseball
Federation(located in Kampong Speu) to develop their capacity of management and
give instruction in baseball-playing skill. And each of them will work in 7
provinces such as Ratanakiri, Battambang, Banteay Meanchey, Prey Veng, Kampong
Speu, Sihanouk Ville and Phnom Penh.
From November
14, 2011, this new KOV group gets an in-country training which focuses on Khmer
language, Cambodia’s way of life and culture so that they are going to be able
to adopt their working environment in the localities easily. And then they are
going to work for 2 years for certain public institutions, which is the part of
human resource development cooperation effort between the Kingdom of Cambodia
and the Republic of Korea.
KOICA has a project
for dispatching the KOV group to Cambodia for responding to the need of human
resource support, and the figure of active KOVs increased up to 132 by 2011.
This is the highest figure since KOICA has started its volunteer program in
2003 in Cambodia.
Since 2003, KOICA
has been sending around 296 volunteers to Cambodia; 83 of
them are working for certain public institutions in provinces and municipality
of Cambodia.
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