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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

    Lin Da answers a math problem in second grade at Angkearhdei Primary School. View audio slideshow "A Day at School with Lin Da" 

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    Students sweep the floors before classes start at Angkearhdei Primary School.

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    Chan and fellow students at Angkearhdei Primary School play a game with a rope made of rubber bands.

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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • Cambodia
  • Development
  • Education
  • Global Family
  • agriculture
  • education
  • food
  • Global Family
  • MCC worker
  • micro-loan
  • organic
  • sewing
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