To provide knowledge concerning First Aids with the right techniques to its staffs and volunteers, Caritas Cambodia organized a training under the theme “Community Based First Aid Training” on March 12-14, 2012 at Kandal-program office.

22 participants (12 females), from 10 villages of Lvea district and and Khan Dangkor, had been invited to join the training. Trainees learned a lot from the training especially, they got actively involved in discussing, sharing ideas, asking and answering the questions

Nhem Sarran, head of Lvea Em District Agriculture office said he learnt a lot on how to save people when they got injured such as unconsciousness, poison, shock, and bone breaking . “If there were any people got injured, I at lease could help to release their condition and could send them to the hospital properly,” he added.

“I’m really happy and appreciate that Caritas organize such a good training. It is very important to know about first aid as I could help people when they have any problems and we can’t send them to the hospital immediately,” said Hok Nak, VDA-MC of Caritas Cambodia from Lva Em district. Hok Nak added she is willing to share what she learned to the people in her community.

Similarly, Thoeun Leakhena, 23, assistant trainer of CBDP of Caritas Cambodia said “I learned a lot from the training. Before joining the training I didn’t realize that first aid is really important. If we know about first aid is like having a doctor in our family.”

At the end of the training, participants were taking a quiz to test their understanding. 10 of all participants got good score. According to the observation of the trainer, the participants were very active and interested in learning about first aid.

Caritas also provided 14 First Aid Kits to the group from 9 villages to use in their communities.