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Passports With Purpose: Travel Bloggers Helping Cambodia

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year with the goal of raising USD13,000 to build a school in rural Cambodia. through American Assistance for Cambodia (AAfC). I started blogging as expat and honestly, expat bloggers saved my life. This year, we're raising money for American Assistance for Cambodia to build a school in rural Cambodia.

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How Would You Use Cell Phones to Bring Web2.0 to Cambodia (or other places without fast Internet)?

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to Cambodia ?" Answer Beth's Questions: (If you write a blog post, use the tag bethkanter_cambodiacampaign ) What advice would you offer to Mam Sari about incorporating computer instruction on a REALLY slow connection and with one computer connected to the Internet? in rural cambodia with cell phone connection?"

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Help Me Send Leng Sopharath Back To College in Good Health!

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Two years ago, my family and I made a commitment to sponsor Leng Sopharath, a young woman from Cambodia, for her college education through the Sharing Foundation 's education program. Without the Sharing Foundation's college education program, she would not be able to make a better life for herself. Any advice?)

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New Online Learning Resource for NGOs - Building Electronic Communities

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Image from Internet Village Motoman project in Ratanakiri Village in Cambodia The above image is from the Ratanakiri Village project in Cambodia. The village is located in a remote region of Cambodia's northeast. There are no highways, no electricity, and villagers life a simple life.

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NpTechTag Summary: NpTech Events, Twitters, and Green Web Hosting

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Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Two nptech events were visible in the NpTech tag stream, the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life Launch Party and the Net2 meetup in Houston.

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Fundraising Widget Campaign: Success! Thank You! You Can Still Contribute!

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We are very grateful to everyone for their contributions, links, and advice. And that's not all, the Sharing Foundation provides school uniforms (a requirement to enter school) to street kids in Cambodia so they can attend school. 's Click To Play. I'm elated that we made goal. In the meantime, enjoy the thank you video!

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An Internet Lesson in a Rural Cambodian Village: And Then You Wait.

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Mam Sary also received several of the video cameras Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson brought over to Cambodia last July donated by Doug from the video blogging community. It became clear that social media in Cambodia means "any media that can solve social issues." The bad health effects of smoking).

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