This photograph was taken by me on October 22, 2010 in Banteay Meanchey Province. while a PCV named Emily was riding Peace Corps's bike from school to her host family house. She carried this banner in order to urge the young generation focusing on...
I took this photo during a morning walk one day in my village in January, 2011 in Cambodia. Though I frequent the same roads daily on my walks/runs I am still bombarded with children yelling "Hello!" at me. This is my favorite group of children who...
This is a photo of me, my American parents and my immediate Khmer host-family members. This was taken a year into my service in Cambodia (April 2008) at my host-family's house in Peam ChiKang village.
This photo was taken of my 12A class early in my service (circa 2007) at the Samdech Hun Sen Peam ChiKang Upper Secondary School in Peam ChiKang village, Kang Meas district, Kampong Cham province. This is a typical Cambodian classroom.
One day I showed my training host brother, Samon, how to build a simple card tower with a deck of cards I brought from America. I didn't know if he got anything out of it at the time. A couple days later I was reading outside, and he came and...
This photo was taken at my school in March 2011. This was the moment we finished painting the world map after working on it for three weeks braving the boiling sun and monsoon rains! The students in the photo are grade 10 students who were helping...
In December 2010, I asked my students if anyone celebrated Christmas in the village. They replied, "No teacher, we know Santa Claus, but he doesn't stop in Cambodia." It was such a sad response that I decided we would have to change that during my...
Children; Secondary projects; Water and sanitation
While building wells in a rural community in the hottest months of the year (April), I stumbled upon this little guy trying to cool off inside a chamber pot.
When I first got to my training site in Cambodia, my family was still finishing planting rice in the fields behind their house. I was interested to see that the animals weren't raised for food, but were kept to work in the fields during the...