Cambodia - Salesian Past Pupils and Students winners of a video contest for civic participation
Phnom Penh, Cambodia - April 5, 2017 - Salesian Education in Social Communication in Cambodia gave a good account of itself at a video competition sponsored by the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to motivate citizens to participate in the 2017 local and municipal elections in Cambodia. The second prize in the competition went in fact to a video made by four past pupils (and a friend of theirs) of the Don Bosco Institute in Kep City, while the third prize went to a video made by a professor of the same institute, Sann Ngong, along with three of his students. The award ceremony was attended by the Director of the Cambodian Electoral Committee, Puthea Hong, and the Representative of JICA Cambodia, Yuichi Sugano. The winning videos will be broadcast on major Cambodian channels.