by theplf | Jan 7, 2011 | Featured, News from the Field, Schools, Volunteers
The School at Knar got a little facelift during the new year when a group of University students from Singapore came to paint and tidy up the garden during “Operation Break Out”. Here is a summary of the activities, written by Toh Zhi Hong:...
by theplf | Dec 9, 2010 | Featured, News from the Field, Schools, Volunteers
We had an amazing number of visitors and volunteers in 2010 and are gratified to see the PLF contingency continuing to grow. We are both humbled and inspired by your selflessness and enthusiasm. Well, that and your ability to open 10,000 chili packets without...
by theplf | Oct 21, 2010 | Featured, News from the Field, Schools, Volunteers
Phew~! Opening day went without a hitch this year, thanks mostly to the enlistment of a group of Cambodian and international volunteers who came to load, unload, cook, serve, distribute, play, dance, clean up and organize. Ponheary and Lori would like to extend many...
by theplf | Oct 18, 2010 | Featured, News from the Field, Schools, Volunteers
Every year the PLF awards bicycles to graduating 6th graders as well as first and second in class for grades 4 and 5. Bicycles assist rural children greatly in realizing their dreams to continue to secondary school, as they are often a fair distance from their...
by theplf | Oct 2, 2010 | Featured, News from the Field, Schools, Teachers, Volunteers
October 1-5 marks the first day at school for each of the PLF supported schools. We are a veritable flurry of activity as we get 2400 students and their teachers prepared for a new school year, award bikes to the graduating 6th graders, organize English and computer...
by theplf | Apr 18, 2009 | News from the Field, Schools, Volunteers
I first came to Cambodia in 2000, for a film shoot in Phnom Penh, where we were given no time at all to explore and none to fly north to the ruins of Angkor. But I had read about Angkor as an art student. And I knew the rudimentary history of the Khmer Rouge, had read...
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