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Veil Thom Summary
Transforming Rural Communities in CambodiaThrough Community Development In 2004, my family moved to Cambodia where we were involved in community development work in rural communities in eastern and southern provinces. This is the story of our primary community and how they changed over the two years that we were there. Among third world communities, the [...]
Bokor Mountain
Ad*ven*ture [noun]: an unusual and exciting, typically hazardous, experience or activity; [verb] engage in hazardous and exciting activity especially the exploration of unknown territory. Ah Webster. Technically accurate… predictably sterile. How does one give justice to an event taking place on a 3,000 foot mountain over 37km of road that hasn’t been maintenanced since the [...]
Lust For Life
I turned 30 last month. I say this only in passing b/c it precedes a great story which is made even better by the knowledge of my receding youth; though any compulsion to bestow cash donations, property, gold bullion, and/or other contributions of a monetary nature may be directed to my parents in New Mexico [...]
Sleepless in Cambodia
Gosh, between Araella waking up at ungodly hours and gun shots going off at 4:30 in the morning it’s impossible to get a decent night’s rest around here! Tara and I woke up to rapid gunfire just outside our house this morning follow by an eery lull. We crept around like Jame’s Bond sidekicks trying [...]
Days in the Village
Hanging out with my Cambodian staff I get to experience some fairly unique sides to life in SE Asia. For instance, it’s not every day you get to eat spicy octopus jerky. Except for a distinct fishy taste it was pretty good. The fishy taste could probably be alleviated by the utilization of fresh octopus [...]
Wells & Water Pumps
The community is in the throws of a large-scale water project. While most people have enough water for household needs very few have sufficient water for agricultural purposes. That and hand-liftng water from a 15 feet well and carrying it a couple hundred meters to a garden discourages most people from the 3 – 4 [...]
Podcast video
Well, lazy weekend has resulted in our first-ever video podcast. The subject is of course Araella, but if this works we want to do some on our work and life in Cambodia. Podcasts are designed to be small, and in the world of video these are small files. But in the world of internet, the [...]
Police Brutality
Nothing incites the western mind more than images of police brutality; those entrusted with upholding the highest standards of the law who break faith with those to whom they are mandated to protect and serve. Images of riots, beatings, bigotry, and racism flood the mind like TV news reels from humanity’s darker moments in history. [...]
Mundane Routine
Swirling the last dregs of my ritual morning brew, I sit at my desk and ponder some of the more difficult issues I face as a development professional in Cambodia… Is it better to risk cancer and use Equal or suck up the calories and use regular sugar? Should I brave non-dairy creamer’s link to [...]
Seven Loaves and a Few Fish
Pastor Savon: Lay pastor for a small Cambodian church Education: none Theological Degree: none Background: Buddhist monk, 8 years; government foot soldier, 2 years; Location: Isolated rural community in the jungles of Southwest Cambodia Population: 350 families; 1700 people Demographics: 80% of men are ex-communist soldiers 70% of families have an amputee victim. Religion: 96% [...]
