Chiv Sovannary

What I do depends on my health. I need to be patient with myself because my health is very important to me. I don’t hesitate to do any job and I work until it is finished. My effort, my struggle, my patience, are all very important, and some jobs I want to do better, but I can’t because I don’t have the ability.

When I was young, my dream was to become a beautiful nurse. When I grew up, I still wanted to be a nurse, but my dream didn’t come true. It all changed because I only got elementary school.

Now I don’t know what I think or what I feel about it. Before I came to CHA, I was sad. When I came to CHA, I learned to speak, to laugh, and to play a lot. I had someone to teach me so I would know about my job at CHA, and I would learn about polio victims. I had teachers who taught me their skills and their language, and I met a lot of friends and visitors, such as Americans, Australians, Canadians, English, Spanish, Japanese, Indians, etc. They are friendly and are all good people. They know how to treat the disabled people at CHA. They taught me English at CHA.

I knew that CHA was an association that would teach me these things. Everything they do, they teach how to sell, and how to make things and how to live.

My hope in my life is that I want to see all people have happiness and peace. After I learned at CHA for a while, I understood a lot of people around me, such as disabled people, foreigners, and my teachers.

My time at CHA hasn’t seemed very long, only 2 years and 8 months.

My parents knew about CHA because my father was a friend of one of the teachers. They knew each other a long time ago.

During my stay at CHA, my favorite is CHa’s heart, its honesty, its kindness, its purity, never lying, and its height of responsibility.

I feel happy that I know a lot of people, both Cambodians and foreigners, who work together, eat together and sleep together. We work together to create new products. Sometimes we fight, but we always make up. That was a different feeling than with my family.

My dreams are: I want to see my family have happiness. I want to see my friends at CHA love each other and work together, and know how to create more and more new products. I wish for them to have good health and for their families to have happiness. In this new year, I hope the angels in heaven will take care of everybody at CHA and keep them in good health and that CHA earns more money and has a lot of guests. I hope they make more products and that everyone orders the new products from CHA. For myself, I want to see the world have peace and not have a disaster.