New toilets for Cambodia
Social Project 2024
The first time on a building site, and the first time in Cambodia: ten Geberit apprentices traveled to Siem Reap in October 2024 to install new sanitary facilities at a local primary school. A project with a real impact.
In real life, the ten apprentices who traveled to Cambodia for the Geberit Social Project in October 2024 work in many different professions – but plumber is not among them. In a crash course at the training centre in Rapperswil-Jona (CH), the young professionals from Germany, Austria and Switzerland first acquired the necessary sanitary know-how. Just a few weeks later, the serious work began. “We have a very privileged life back home. I am happy that we can help the local people on site,“ said Alina Werner, an apprentice industrial clerk from Lichtenstein (DE), before leaving.
This help was urgently needed at Svay Thom Primary School in Siem Reap. There were just over ten WCs and a few urinals for 1,800 schoolchildren and 80 teachers. The goal of the Geberit apprentices was to double the sanitary infrastructure with twelve new WCs, five urinals and two washbasins from the Geberit Bambini series.
Strenuous work with many happy moments. Denis Baumann, mediamatics apprentice from Switzerland, captured the Geberit social project 2024 in a short film.
A Geberit tradition
Since 2008, apprentices have been given the opportunity to demonstrate their team spirit and skills as part of a two-week project aimed at supporting social institutions in other countries. Geberit provides the materials, which the apprentices install under technical supervision. 2024 saw the apprentices travel to Cambodia with the NGO “Kamboo Project”.