by Kate Allen | Nov 4, 2021 | Covid19 Strategy, Featured, Food & Wellness, Headline, News from the Field
While many countries spent 2020 in and out of lockdowns and are now broadly free of restrictions, Cambodia’s COVID journey has been almost the polar opposite. For much of last year, we still had freedom of movement, affording a degree of normalcy to daily life and...
by Lori Carlson | Mar 22, 2021 | Covid19 Strategy, Food & Wellness, Headline, Schools
One year after the pandemic began, Cambodia is seeing enough community spread to start overwhelming resources. We are predicting a rough road ahead. There was an event that is now called the February 20th Incident which paralyzed Phnom Penh, Sihanoukville and the...
by Cassie Gravett | Sep 17, 2020 | Covid19 Strategy, Featured, Food & Wellness, Headline
Sometimes you do things and they just WORK. Over the last 6 months that schools have been closed, we’ve been dropping food parcels to more than 700 students every three weeks. The drops happen at our most rural schools where children suffer from an unacceptable...
by Lori Carlson | Aug 25, 2020 | Covid19 Strategy, Featured, Food & Wellness, Get Real, Headline, News from the Field
What’s happening in Cambodia’s Education System and How PLF is Responding In Mid-March when schools closed, over 100 PLF University students fled from Phnom Penh and returned to their villages. Timing was horrible as it was right at the end of the first half; many of...
by Christin Spoolstra | May 22, 2020 | Covid19 Strategy, Featured, Food & Wellness
Food is one of the most basic needs that every human must meet. For many of the students in rural Cambodia, a country where 32% of children are malnourished, that need is instead only a daily hope: hope that the harvest will be good that year, hope that their parent...
by Lori Carlson | Apr 1, 2020 | Covid19 Strategy, Featured, Food & Wellness, Get Real, Uncategorized
Greetings PLF FamilyWe thought we’d take a breath and send an update on what has been going on here in Cambodia since we last posted. UNIVERSITY STUDENTS PLF has 53 enrolled at University in Phnom Penh and another 29 in Siem Reap. Of these, 14 have decided to remain...
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