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Ending the Cycle of Poverty With Access to Quality Education

Saleforce Nonprofit

Their fate seems set from a young age: Children living in some of the most deprived communities in Cambodia are often denied the chance of an education, trapped in a cycle of poverty with no escape. The Cambodian Children’s Fund (CCF) is changing this and giving these children hope — of an education and a better life.

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Day 12: Let’s Help Send Some Cambodian Kids To College – #12days of giving

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m fundraising for the Sharing Foundation , that supports children and young people in Cambodia. Because my children were adopted from Cambodia and it is a way to give back. Through the Sharing Foundation’s college sponsorship program and our support, Leng was able to go the University to study accounting.

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Women, Girls, Education and Global Health: Interview with Carinne Brody

Have Fun - Do Good

When a girl receives an education, she stays healthy, HIV negative, marries when she chooses, and raises a healthy family. She did a joint Masters in Public Health and Economic Development at Columbia University. The idea behind The Girl Effect is that when we invest in girls, particularly in developing countries, everybody wins.

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Christian Kreutz, Web 2.0 for Development Blogger, is in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam Now. Cambodian Education System Changes To OpenSource Software!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Through following his twitter stream, I discovered he's on the ground now in Southeast Asia and is coming to Cambodia. to places without high speed Internet access like Cambodia ?" (He did some terrific reporting from the Web2.0 Development Conference in Rome last September). Ping him over at his blog.

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Happy International Women’s Day: Meet Keo Savon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tom Watson has written about a remarkable woman in Cambodia, Mu Sochu. I’d like to introduce you to Keo Savon, an orphan from Cambodia from the same orphanage as our daughter. My family is sponsoring her college education through the work of the Sharing Foundation. She graduated this year.

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BlogHers, Gender Blogging, and Linux Chix in Cambodia!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Click To Play Here a round up of some the fabulous women Bloghers in Cambodia and Linux Chix that I met. It had nothing to do with saving the world or strengthening Cambodia???s Some points that DeeDee made that perfectly illustrate the usefulness of blogs in educational context: Blogging helped her English improve.

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Blogging To Improve Cambodia's Environment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She has been blogging about her work and life at Sreisaat Adventures in Cambodia since January, 2004. Born in Roxas City, known as the seafood capital of the Philippines, she graduated from the University of the Philippines with a degree in mass communications. She moved to Cambodia in April, 2000. Mlup Baitong???s