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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. Cambodian Bloggers Summit T-Shirt.

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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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Cameras for Cambodia

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I started to find great expat blogs about Cambodia, particularly sweetcucumber and started to follow the links of the comments and found another blog which referenced Elizabeth's project. I am hoping that I can set up something with my son's class and the kids she is working in Cambodia over the next year. I emailed her.

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The best remix of one of my Cambodian Photos by Arn Chorn Pond

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Via my flickr stream. My last trip to Cambodia, I photographed monks. Here's the email message I received: I stumbled upon your slide show of beautiful photos of Cambodia. We're building a website for students all over the world that profiles five different human rights awards winners. I'm so honored.

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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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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. The photo above came in today's letter from Leng Sopharath.

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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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