by Cassie Gravett | Sep 27, 2020 | Covid19 Strategy, Featured, Headline, Scholarships, University
Most charities, unlike their for-profit counterparts, have mission constraints that can sometimes cause a bit of paralysis. Every charity must have a clearly defined mission statement which donors expect us to stay well inside, and rightly so. It provides a level of...
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 27, 2020 | Enrichment Programs, Featured, Headline, Scholarships, University
PLF has a Girls dorm and a Boys Dorm in Siem Reap. They are meant to be College Prep Dorms and house students from the outer reaches of the north who want to go to College. But there have been obstacles. Cambodia has a Boy Problem. The Girl’s Dormitory can house 24...
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 Lori Carlson | Aug 17, 2020 | Enrichment Programs, Featured, Get Real, Headline
Srayang Dormitory Becomes the Srayang Learning Center At our core, PLF is about equity. Our work in the broad sense is about knocking down barriers and forcing open doors for Cambodia’s rural population to access education. When we started, less than 7% of Cambodia’s...
by Lori Carlson | Jul 12, 2020 | Covid19 Strategy, Featured, Get Real, Headline
We’ve always considered ourselves to be pretty light on our feet; flexible, ready to dodge to the left or right however necessary to meet most every challenge. Then came COVID and the wrecking of education and then of the economy. It’s been a bit relentless. And...
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