Oct 22, 2026 · 56 min · 9 segments
Welcome back to another episode of Stories of the Saints! This week, Robin sits down with Simon to hear his story. Simon shares about his early days and journey of faith, his family and the…
I remember thinking about this particular interview with you and you were saying that you've been to Cambodia quite a few times.
The boss at the time, when our first, no it wasn't our first year 11 cohort, it was our second year 11 cohort.
Can you figure something out? And so basically I got together with our fairly newly appointed director of welfare, um, who himself had come from an international school in Singapore, um, and had taken teams of kids from Singapore over to Cambodia building, um, houses, uh, with a, with an organisation called Tabitha, uh, run by a Canadian lady, uh, called Jan Ritzkes.
Um, and yeah, basically Tabitha were doing, were doing great work, um, They had a program basically which involved working in villages with poor families.
And for some families, it also meant then the opportunity to get into the house building program.
Um, about five foot, six foot off the ground, um, with a, essentially a staircase, which was more like a ladder.
So what, basically if, if they, what they would graduate from was a, I'm not sure what you know about Cambodia, but Cambodia is a, is a country which, because of the Mekong River and the Tonle Sap River, a lot of it goes, floods every year.
And so they would have thatched houses which would get washed away, or would go underwater every year, and they'd have to rebuild them.
so the houses that we built, got them up out of the water, um, when the floods came and, uh, kept them, kept them dry.
Um, so it started with, yeah, started with me going with that first year 11 group from, uh, Narra Anglican College.
I remember thinking about this particular interview with you and you were saying that you've been to Cambodia quite a few times.
The boss at the time, when our first, no it wasn't our first year 11 cohort, it was our second year 11 cohort.
Can you figure something out? And so basically I got together with our fairly newly appointed director of welfare, um, who himself had come from an international school in Singapore, um, and had taken teams of kids from Singapore over to Cambodia building, um, houses, uh, with a, with an organisation called Tabitha, uh, run by a Canadian lady, uh, called Jan Ritzkes.
Um, and yeah, basically Tabitha were doing, were doing great work, um, They had a program basically which involved working in villages with poor families.
And for some families, it also meant then the opportunity to get into the house building program.
Um, about five foot, six foot off the ground, um, with a, essentially a staircase, which was more like a ladder.
So what, basically if, if they, what they would graduate from was a, I'm not sure what you know about Cambodia, but Cambodia is a, is a country which, because of the Mekong River and the Tonle Sap River, a lot of it goes, floods every year.
And so they would have thatched houses which would get washed away, or would go underwater every year, and they'd have to rebuild them.
so the houses that we built, got them up out of the water, um, when the floods came and, uh, kept them, kept them dry.
Um, so it started with, yeah, started with me going with that first year 11 group from, uh, Narra Anglican College.
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