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Tech and NGO T-Shirts for Cambodia

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Click To Play Whenever I've travel over to Cambodia, I have the opportunity to check two large suitcases up to 70 pounds each. Instead, we bring over supplies for the Sharing Foundation , mostly in-kind donations of clothing, medicine, or other items that can't be easily acquired or are cheaper in the US.

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Send Your Good Wishes To Leng Soparath in Cambodia: Deadline Jan. 11th

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Many of you already know about my first personal fundraising campaign to raise money to cover the cost of the college tutition and living expenses for Leng Sopharath, an orphan in Cambodia. She is one of 18 students being sponsored for college through The Sharing Foundation's program. More background here ).

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Most Recent Letter from Leng Sopharath

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Leng Sopharath is one of 19 college students being sponsored for college through a program of the Sharing Foundation , an ngo that works directly with local officials, orphanages, and NGOs in Cambodia to identify and carry out projects which improve the lives of children.

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Meeting Leng Sopharath

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The Internet connection in Cambodia is small pipeline and slow. So, I am blogging via flickr. After making the photos really small so they will upload quickly and disabled image load, I am blog reblog to typepad from my flickr account. In contrast to my blogging friends, I asked the college students if they knew what a blog was.

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Give One, Get One: One Laptop Per Child.

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DC Metblogger Flickr Photo. But when I realized it would take a long time before a small NGO working in a country, like say, Cambodia, might be able to purchase a small number of them (less than 100) to outfit a school, I was disappointed. Almost exactly two years ago, the One Laptop Per Child launched. Tharum was disappointed too.

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You Are Never Too Old To Change The World!

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Nancy Hendrie and Tep Vuthea Photo from flickr. Almost ten years ago, she founded a nonprofit organization, The Sharing Foundation , dedicated to meeting the physical, emotional, educational, and medical needs of orphaned and seriously- disadvantaged children in Cambodia. Why Cambodia? s garment industry.

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America's Giving Challenge: Bloggers Campaign Roundup

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Sharing Foundation Khmer Literacy Program. I launched a bloggers campaign as part of the Sharing Foundation's America Giving Challenge. Roger Carr has written a wonderful post about the Sharing Foundation's Khmer Literacy School. to a wonderful fundraiser involving our beloved : THE SHARING FOUNDATION. Flickr Supporters.

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