AMATAK, a Tokyo-based group headed by the Rev. Fumio Goto of the Catholic Kichijoji Church, and its sister group in Cambodia have been building elementary schools in poor villages in the Southeast Asian nation for about 10 years.

They have so far built 12 schools in eight villages in four provinces.

AMATAK is now constructing a school in the village of Kok Samrong in Banteay Mean Chey Province.