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Build4People is thrilled to announce the 6^th video clip of its online exhibition “Cambodia’s Green Pioneers”, introducing Thary Vorn, CEO & co-founder of SUDrain Co., Ltd. 

Her company SUDrain provides innovative and sustainable wastewater treatment solutions by recycling coconut waste into biofilm filters. This innovative easy-to-install technology delivers highly efficient pollutant removal for industrial, domestic, and ammonia nitrogen wastewater. 

In this context, SUDrain is actively working on multiple projects to improve sanitation and climate resilience in coastal and vulnerable communities to enhance the quality of life of their inhabitants. 

Thary Vorn is of the firm opinion that a sustainable waste management strategy with lasting impact must include behaviour change. This can only be triggered by active community building and by fostering strong relationships with the local population.

In recent time, SUDrain has won several prestigious awards for their innovative approaches, among others the Khmer Enterprise Startup Award in 2022, 1st Prize at the Lafiya Innovators Program in 2023, and the ASEAN Blue Innovation Challenge grant, funded by UNDP, ASEAN, and the Government of Japan, in 2024. 🇰🇭💡💪🏼 💙💧🥥💚 💪🏼💡🇰🇭

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Build4People is very proud to announce the 5^th video clip of its online exhibition “Cambodia’s Green Pioneers”, introducing Saroth Tonn and his family. Saroth is a fierce bicycle 🚲 enthusiast who is regularly organizing bicycle trips for his family and his friends in and around Phnom Penh.

In his opinion, all mothers and fathers should be role models and motivate their children to do sport, for example to encourage them to bike. Saroth is convinced, that spending time with the children, to push them and make the kids want to try and not to get bored or disappointed, will provide enjoyable experiences for both parents and kids. Furthermore, the family biking will make the kids to appreciate the city’s surrounding beautiful nature and landscape. 

Over and above, it has to mentioned that Saroth’s cycling approach has also positive effects to reduce mental stress and to improve physical health.💡💪🏼 🚲💚 🚴🏽‍♀️🇰🇭

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Build4People is very proud to announce the 4^rth video clip of its online exhibition “Cambodia’s Green Pioneers”, introducing Kongngy Hav. He is the founder of the social enterprise “My Dream Home” to make affordable housing available in Cambodia, thereby introducing an interlocking brick system made from compressed soil and cement. 💡🧱🧩👷🏽‍♀️💚🇰🇭

These eco-friendly interlocking bricks significantly reduce the use of sand, cement, and energy compared to traditional red bricks, and they thus leave a lower carbon footprint. The use of non-arable topsoil for brick production aligns with the circular economy’s circularity principle, by reusing a resource – soil – that is typically discarded and used for construction filling. Unlike traditional red clay bricks, which require firing – and in Cambodia, burning wood is most often used for this process – “My Dream Home” bricks undergo compression manufacturing, which leaves a minimal carbon footprint. 

In this way Kongngy Hav’s innovative approach has a positive effect on natural resource use, as it promotes material efficiency, waste reduction and all in all a lower carbon footprint.💡🧱🧩👷🏽‍♀️💚🇰🇭.

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This first clip of the B4P Snapshot Interview Series was done on the occasion of the International Women’s Day on 08 March 2025. 

Build4People interviewed Ms. Sokunlanita May, who founded the W.A.E. – Women in Architecture and Engineering, to strengthen the role of women in Cambodia’s building industry. In the course of the interview, she provided insights why she founded W.A.E. and how she perceives its role as well as how she envisages the future collaboration with the Build4People project.

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