Our three intredpid Summer Leapers- Vivienne, Laura and Maud (fondly referred to here at Leap towers as the Three lovely Musketeers) are doing great work in Cambodia and are unbelieveably over the halfway stage of their Asian adventure already!

The girls spent their first three weeks in Siem Reap, building water filters with Trailblazer Foundation, an Australian NGO that provides clean water systems and training to rural communities. Working alongside the Cambodian staff seiving sand and constructing the filters (scientific stuff!) was an experience, but the real highlight was heading out to the villages to show communities how to work the filters and help to install them. The first week they went on two visits and the next week revisited the village on the Wednesday with the pumping well team at Trail Blazer. Laura said that on one trip out to one of the villages they were most definately the star attraction for that day if not the entire week/month, with the whole village crowding round and wanting to get a good look at them!

The finished article!

The finished article!

Their afternoons for the first few weeks were spent teaching at a local orphanage where they all discovered a passion for teaching and a talent for giving hugs! You can read more about their first few weeks by clicking the Leapers Diary link on the Cambodia Team page of the website.