Students: 13
Facilitators: Karen Krieger
This is the first exploration of Year 5. First of all, I’m so happy to be a part of this exploration because this exploration was a completely new learning for me.
In this exploration, we learn about the main health issue in Cambodia, which is anemia. We do research and there are three types of anemia. One of the them is Iron Deficiency which is the topic that our exploration focus on. We study about the causes of Iron Deficiency and what are the solutions to help it. I was surprised because I never know that Iron Deficiency is the main health issue in Cambodia. It’s interesting to learn why is this the main health issue in Cambodia, specifically on the rural place.
First of all, the cause of Iron Deficiency is mean that you don’t have enough iron in your body. Your body needs iron because iron produces red blood cells that carries healthy oxygen. If a person don’t have enough iron, it means they are not healthy enough. The symptoms of having Iron Deficiency are, paled skin, tired, sleepy, weakness, shortness of breath, dizzy. The things that you can do to get more iron in your body is your diet. You need to eat red meat, leafy greens and all those food that contains a lot of iron in it. There’s another solution…….
We work with this organization, The Lucky Iron Fish. It’s an organization that helps rural people in Cambodia to get more iron in their body by giving out the Lucky Iron Fish. The Lucky Iron Fish is an iron fish that contains the iron (f1) that every human have that type of iron in their body. This iron fish is really helpful for Cambodian people.
We went to Siem Reap to give a workshop to villagers and students about The Lucky Iron Fish. We taught them about how to use the iron fish and we try to encourage them to use the iron fish everyday in their daily meals. We have distribute around 200 iron fishes to the villagers and the student’s parent. While we were doing workshop, we also document it, film. Our product for this exploration is a video clip about The Lucky Iron Fish, in Khmer version.
While we were in Siem Reaps, we also visit tourism places over there. We went to war museum, landmine museum, nightly indoor performances (PHARE), Angkor Wat, hiking and night market. It was a really fun trip and we received a lot of new experience.
Visit The Lucky Iron Fish Website.