DISTRICT OF VIETNAM MISSION IN CAMBODIA 

Brother Superior General with the unanimous advice of the General Council present has approved the opening of a community in Phnom Penh in the Kingdom of Cambodia.

The proposal is for the Brothers of Vietnam, in conjunction with Vietnamese Brothers working in San Jose, District of San Francisco, to make a return to Cambodia, where there were Brothers from 1906 to 1973. The plan is to open a new Lasallian community in Cambodia before it becomes difficult to get government permission, this being the advice of a group of religious present in the Kingdom. 

The short term plan is to send three or four volunteer Brothers to form a community in Phnom Penh. They would spend the first year being inculturated into the Cambodian way of life through a study of the language and culture. They would render some educational service to the poor and participate in   the catechetical ministry of the local Church. At the end of the first year they would present an evaluation and a proposal to the Brother Visitor and Council for consideration. 

In a second phase they would subcontract with the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers to take care of five to ten children with HIV. 

The Brothers in San Jose, would assume the fund-raising for this mission with the permission of the Brother Visitor of San Francisco. An endowment fund of $200,000 would be set up to support the mission.