Our Street and good news / bad news

Our Street To give you a glimpse of urban Cambodia, we thought we would show you what our street looks like.  It's an eclectic mix of Khmer and western houses, some quite well off but most incredibly poor. Here are two photo's of a large pond across the road from our apartment, Father & Son gathering plants from the pond Wife (mother) in amongst it ! where locals gather edible...

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TEDx and Desks

TEDx The best way to ensure the kids of the community centre are engaged by the staff is to make sure the staff themselves are engaged, so we recently took the staff of the Goodwill Center on a staff development day to TEDx in Phnom Penh. The Goodwill Center paid for some of it and your donations helped pay for the rest. While costs are low, for example $9 for a return busfare but that's 1/2 a weeks wage for some locals. is about spreading...

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more happenings...

Two New Looks The blog site's "new" look For those of you who receive an email of the blog posting, you won't have noticed but we have completely redesigned the site. This allows us to be more "viewer" friendly for those of you with mobile devices like Android phones & tablets and iEverythings as well as make the site a little more modern and "funky" (can I use the word funky at my age ? )  We may add a twitter feed in...

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Insights and observations

If you receive these updates by email, don't forget you can click through to the blog itself, where  you can read older posts, find out more information if you want to help further and see more photo's and video's, click this link to go to the blog itself. Observations One of the good things about riding the mountain bike is being able to get off the beaten track a little more as well as take it a little slower....

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Starting at Goodwill Centre

Helping Smaller Cambodian NGO's Just a reminder to other small Cambodian NGO's, we are still keen to work with them if we can help with funding from the money we have raised in Australia.  One small NGO assumed because Toni was now working as the Operations Manager (more on this later) at the Goodwill Centre, that all of the funds would be directed there.  On the contrary, most of Toni's time will be directed there but only a small portion...

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