Building a new house for fire victims

The boys have been busy over the last few months building a new house for a young family (Phos' sister) after their house was destroyed by fire in February.
Thank you to the generous people who donated money towards building the house, it is now finally finished!!
The boys spent most of their school holidays and weekends helping build the house. I am very proud of the time and effort they put into helping this family.
I am trying to teach the boys to help others, which they are keen to do anyways.

The family have written a letter to the people who donated money to build their lovely new house, which they love. (Translated from Khmer into English by Phos)

Dear kind friends,

When I saw our house on fire, I was very shocked and devastated that we had lost everything. I was sad that we lost our family house and all our property. I didn’t know how I was going to fix our problem, I was trying to think how can I get money quickly. I felt very helpless and worried all the time about my wife and sons. There was no way I could help them myself and this made me very scared.

In my life I have never felt like this before, I felt I lost everything. I can’t describe the feeling I felt. We lost everything from the small things to important things like farming equipment, important papers and money. We had nothing.

I didn’t know how I was going to earn money and to feed my family. I am not an educated man.

I would like to say thank you very much. I want to thank you more and more all the time. You are all generous people to help my family have a new house and make everything a house, and new machine. Now I know our life will be ok because of you all.

Thank you to Teacher Clare very much for finding people to help my family. You make us have everything good now. In my life I don’t know how to repay you and your friends. I can only say thank you to you all and hope you understand how much I thank you. Thank you for looking after my family when they were sick.

Finally, I wish all our generous ‘friends’ good luck and everything good for you because you are so kind to my family. You don’t know us but helped us, I am very surprised when I heard we will get a new house. I love our house, all my family do.

From Seng Soeuy and Phy Meas