Moving the Maryknoll Office 18 June 2010 Maryknoll doesn't own any property in Cambodia but rents quite a few properties for its different projects.  It also rents an office for the Cambodia Mission Team, a place to keep accounts, pick up mail, have meetings, etc.  After a recent rent increase, we decided to move the office from Street 95 to a house we found on Street 123, not too far away, and today was the moving day.

Various members of the mission team, led by Sr. Regina, began packing up the old house a week ago, and then yesterday was a final push to get everything ready to move.  Outside our guards took down a security light we had installed.  Unfortunately the guards will not be needed at the new office because the landlord's family lives in the compound. Some electricians were working in the house all day to add some extra lights promised by the landlord.  The Maryknoll crew worked around them to get boxes and furniture in the proper rooms. The new house has a well-enclosed open area in front of the house.  Going through the screened gate leads to a former garage which is now the Maryknoll office.  The open area in front of the office (above) has a roof over it so it is basically a large open room.  The kitchen is a long narrow room across the back of the house. The former living room will now become the Maryknoll meeting room.  There is a large dining area next to it which will serve the residents of the house.  An anomaly of many Khmer houses is an outdoor living room, something of a porch, replete with massive, heavy wooden furniture. The landlord's family had lived downstairs but because we needed more room, they moved upstairs above the Maryknoll office.  Maryknoll has the area behind the green fence, and the landlord has a separate entrance (open) on the right, with a stairway going up to their living quarters.

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