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Camp GLOW health and bonding (live)
Okay, we just wrapped up the last few activities of the day and are back at the hotel getting ready for dinner. The past few hours we did activities related to health and bonding. A KOICA volunteer...
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Camp GLOW exercise and yoga (live)
Mark Douple and I led half of this one-hour session on exercise. We got them up, moving, and sweating. Besides allowing the girls to take a break from some of the heavier topics of the day, we wanted...
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Camp GLOW volunteerism and the female body (live)
We wrapped up the activities’ part of the day with a presentation on volunteerism and a session about the woman’s body (in which the boys were kicked out) and the girls were able to ask any questions...
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Camp GLOW, fashion show and group photo
Camp GLOW Prey Veng finished with a newspaper fashion show (a concept we borrowed from this Siem Reap group) and group photos. Fashion Show The girls were given an example (in our case, Mark, the...
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Camp GLOW results
I spent the past week translating our end-of-camp surveys for Camp Girls Leading Our World. Here are a few results from the fifty participants… 72% — able to reference at least two healthy habits they...
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Camp GLOW–to our donors
Camp GLOW would never have happened without the help of donors back home. If you donated to Camp GLOW Prey Veng, this post is for you.* Thank you! The power of camps like GLOW lies in the ideas that...
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Cow Insurance
Though I’ll stop well short of saying our healthcare system is perfect, I think we can all agree it’s preferable to nothing. Sadly, nothing is what many villagers deal with in Cambodia. I got a taste...
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Celebrating Mesar’s spirit
This past weekend one of Prey Veng’s historic districts hosted one of the largest annual festivals in Cambodia, Mesar Festival. There’s a lot of Cambodian folklore and history to Mesar Festival...
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Gearing up for the elections
It is the Cambodia People’s Party’s (CPP)—the ruling party in Cambodia—one-month rally until elections, and Cambodians are obediently doing as they were told invited to and attending, celebrating, and...
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CPP Honors: Failed States Index, the 10,000 Days Club
Now that we’re less than a month away from Cambodia’s national elections, I thought Foreign Policy’s Failed States Index would be worth reflecting on the CPP’s decades-long rule leadership. The 2013...
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Cambodia’s National Assembly Elections
For the fifth time since the fall of the Khmer Rouge, Cambodians head to the polls today for the National Assembly elections. 9.7 million Cambodians are eligible to vote and about 70% are expected to...
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The Last Exam
Over 100,000 twelfth graders around Cambodia started their last high school exam this morning. And while I love Cambodia, Cambodians, and the work Peace Corps does alongside the Cambodian people in...
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