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friends, life, travel

beautiful people

Today was our last day in Chung Ruk village. We’ve completed all of our projects (building a preschool, a fence around the school campus, we installed 46 bio-sand filters in villagers homes and a water catchment tank for the preschool) today it was time to party and say goodbye- for now. We all have fallen […]

design, life, travel

Cambodian floating village

We visited the floating village on Sunday, about an hour drive from Pursat, I don’t know the name of the village. The people who live here are descendants of the Vietnamese soldiers who came in the 1970′s to fight the Khmer Rouge, stuck around and intermarried with the Cambodians. What.an.experience. The sights and the smells […]

cycling, life, travel

the best feeling ever

Today we drove out into the rural countryside in Cambodia, Pursat Province, to the village of Chung Ruk for the opening ceremonies of our Youthlinc service project. The Youthlinc kids have been working for a year on projects and fundraisers to purchase goods that will benefit this village. The concept has been a bit abstract […]