by Natalie Gidney | Aug 27, 2024 | Cambodia, General, Youth Empowerment
Internships Open Doors to Hope DYK? Half of the people on our planet are 30 or younger, and this is expected to reach 57% by the end of 2030. DYK? – Two-thirds of Cambodians are under the age of 30.* In Canada, children have the opportunity to learn about...
by Natalie Gidney | Jun 25, 2024 | Cambodia, Women Empowerment
Weaving for the Future Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. – Peter Drucker Every culture has its own creative outlets. Some of those creative outlets tell a story about a...
by Natalie Gidney | Apr 4, 2024 | Cambodia, General, Youth Empowerment
Learning Life Skills through Sport After school programs are transforming lives in Cambodia. The Sports for Development (S4D) club in Mondulkiri is helping girls and boys learn not only how to play sports but how to set and achieve goals through discipline and...
by Natalie Gidney | Mar 1, 2024 | Cambodia, General
Sustainable Tourism Arriving at Camp The road leading to Jahoo Camp, didn’t always look like a road, well, at least a road I was accustomed to – sometimes it looked more like a dried-up riverbed in the midst of a month-long drought. I nervously questioned our driver,...
by Natalie Gidney | Dec 7, 2023 | Cambodia
Reflections from Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum Genocide. A word that wasn’t even part of our English vocabulary until Polish lawyer, Raphael Lemkin combined the Greek root genos (meaning race, people) with the Latin suffix –caedo (meaning the act of killing) in 1944 to...
by Guest Author | Nov 21, 2023 | Cambodia, Clean Water and Sanitation
Perspectives on Collecting Water Every summer for 18 years, I drank water hand drawn from a nearby well. Several times a week, according to the job chart tacked to the wall of our rustic cottage, I grabbed the faded green bucket from the counter and skipped along the...
