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Focal Area: The Roeurl Commune
The Roeurl Commune, General Information
The Roeurl Commune is situated about 40 km NW of SiemReap, 8 km north of the highway A6 from Siem Reap to Bangkok. The commune counts 14 villages with a total of about 14,000 inhabitants, distributed over the different villages in an area of about 80 km². From the highway A6 there is about 5 km prepared and maintained gravel road up onto the community center, from there on all connecting roads are from rammed soil, in the rainy season, monsoon, sometimes in extremely bad condition, i.e. only bikes, 4WD's or trucks can be used for transport.
There is no infrastructure for electricity and water distribution or sewers for waist water.
Most people use water from small deep wells for their daily consumption; on the average there is about 1 pump for 3.5 families.map of Roerl Commune
Only very few houses, not even all schools, have a toilet, which is in general nothing more than a hole in the ground, covered by a toilet plate and a small shed over it to guarantee some privacy. Many people are therefore not familiar with basic hygienic behaviour.
Over 95% of the villagers get their small income from agricultural activities, mainly from working on the rice fields. Most families have small pieces of land for growing vegatables and fruits (bananas, mangos, etc) for their own need. Many have a cow, pigs and chicken.
Houses
2520 families live in 2471 houses, of which 1034 have a roof of palm leaves, 891 are Zn house and 545 are partly built from stone with a tile roof. As mentioned before there are no sewers, there is no electricity and current water. In 81 houses there is a toilet, 63 of them in the village Trapeang Russei located along the main prepaired gravel road.more
People
The attached table shows the devision of people over the several villages. As a result of the Khmer Rouge catastrophe, the number of people younger than 18 is about 48%. The average family counts 5.5 persons, the average income per family is between $30 and $50 per month.
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