By Emily Wilkins
The State News
A few weeks ago, Eda Uong stood before a room of about 30 MSU students and repeated words first spoken to him by a U.S. solider in his home country of Cambodia.
“No matter what happens to your family,” the solider told Uong, “Go to school and do not quit.”
On the other side of the world, in Uong’s village of Rong DomRey, many children leave school at a young age to help support their families, Uong said. Other problems in the village affect the entire county — a lack of doctors, safe drinking water and sanitation.
So when Uong came to the U.S. to study several years ago, he began working to raise money to improve his hometown. After successfully improving the town’s school, MSU students are stepping up to raise money for a $3,000 medical center in the village.
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