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Give One, Get One: One Laptop Per Child.

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DC Metblogger Flickr Photo. Almost exactly two years ago, the One Laptop Per Child launched. 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.

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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. Since I could not visit Cambodia without carrying over some items for the Sharing Foundation, I had a third checked piece of luggage, a portable crib for orphanage. Click To Play.

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Congratulations Mean Lux on Your Promotion!

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Flickr Photo. Mean Lux is a blogger in Cambodia and was one of the organizers of the Cambodia Bloggers Summer last August. He's a supporter (in spirit) of the Sharing Foundation's work - they don't use credit cards in Cambodia and so can't use the Global Giving page ).

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Video Blogging in Rural Cambodian Province

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and video blogging workshops in Cambodia. Mean Lux emailed to let me know that they had taken the cameras up to a Youth Festival and Training in a remote corner of Cambodia called Pursat! Viirak (the guy behind the stickered laptop ) and Be Chantra were there to help. Photo by MeanLux. Videos to come shortly!

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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? be it Cambodia, Africa or Haiti.???

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The Pros/Cons of Social Web for NGOs from Kabissa

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re not near your Yahoo mailbox, your blog, your flickr account? I remember this from my time in Cambodia where I was an hour's drive from the nearest Internet cafe while teaching ESL in the Roteang Village School english program. I usually left my laptop back in the hotel and packed all my paper resources. but now new Web 2.0

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Benefits of Global Blogging: Dinner Companions No Matter Where You Go!

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So, if you want to follow me - best to click through the flickr stream. This is my first trip to Cambodia during rainy season, so I was really amused the huge downpour and thunderstorm (the porch was protected). The Internet connection is very slow that I am on and typepad won't load. We dined outside on the porch.

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