Preparing for the future in Cambodia
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Photo by Melissa Engle
Angkearhdei Primary School stands above rice fields that stretch for miles around Angkearhdei village in southern Cambodia. MCC helps provide breakfasts, teaching materials, latrines and other assistance to the school through MCC's Global Family education sponsorship program.
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Photo by Melissa Engle
Students sweep the floors before classes start at Angkearhdei Primary School.
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Photo by Melissa Engle
Chan and fellow students at Angkearhdei Primary School play a game with a rope made of rubber bands.
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Photo by Melissa Engle
At left, Yoeurn Chhang, 10, relaxes at home after a school day at Angkearhdei Primary School. At right, Lee Kim Hung serves his fellow students a breakfast of rice porridge that MCC helps provide.
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Photo by Melissa Engle
Carrie Martin, from Lancaster, Pa., is an MCC worker who advises two fair trade handicraft organizations in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. She is pictured at the Rajana Association.
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Photo by Melissa Engle
Sophea Poat sews bathrobes out of traditional Cambodian fabric at Rehab Craft Cambodia in Phnom Penh. Rehab Craft, which sells handicrafts through Ten Thousand Villages, is a fair-trade organization that MCC supports in providing employment for people with physical disabilities.
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Photo by Melissa Engle
Chan Sophan, left, and Carrie Martin work together at Rehab Craft Cambodia. Sophan is a co-director of the organization and Martin is an MCC handicraft designer and business adviser.
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Photo by Melissa Engle
In Takeo province, Cambodia, Long Yarn prepares to water his vegetable garden. Yarn has benefited from small loans and agricultural training that he received from the Takeo Community Forestry Integrated Development Association with support from MCC.
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Photo by Melissa Engle
Long Yarn grows organic lettuce, kale and other vegetables using techniques he learned from the Takeo Community Forestry Integrated Development Association with support from MCC.
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Photo by Melissa Engle
Ouch La, center, sells baked goods at a roadside stand in Takeo province, Cambodia. Small loans from the Takeo Community Forestry Integrated Development Association have allowed her to expand her business, purchase a taxi for her husband to drive and build a house.
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Photo by Melissa Engle
Ouch La encourages her children to save money. She and her son Tek Tourna look at a booklet where they keep a record of their savings.
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