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Overcoming mental health taboos in Cambodia with Chhim Sotheara

Publication date 19 March 2019 | 11:13 | ICT

Now 51 years old, Chhim Sotheara lost his childhood as he spent his formative years living in the thick of civil war, genocide and conflict.

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Poisoning, hunting and logging: The Kingdom’s wildlife is under attack

Publication date 12 March 2019 | 11:06 | ICT

Early one morning, a middle-aged man sits near water mixing animal food and packing it into a plastic bag. He then heads to a water reservoir, knife in hand, holding a half-full plastic sports bottle.
Video: Trauma therapy through the arts: Meet founder of The Red Pencil

Publication date 07 March 2019 | 13:59 | ICT

The Red Pencil helps people dealing with trauma heal and grow through the creative process of creating art across the mediums of drawing, music and movement and dance.
Trauma therapy through the arts: Meet the founder of The Red Pencil

Publication date 05 March 2019 | 12:06 | ICT

It was fifteen years ago when Laurence Vandenborre first worked with a traumatised nine-year-old girl who was rescued from the colossal 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that devastated Southeast Asia.
Tuk tuk movie theatre engaging kids in Pursat’s rural communities

Publication date 26 February 2019 | 13:47 | ICT

Australian Adrian Paschkow started his tuk tuk movie project to put a smile on the faces of children living in remote areas of Pursat province, while also wanting to motivate them to pursue education, using his tuk-tuk cum mobile mo
AYLA – Cambodia aims to empower and give a voice to Kingdom’s youth

Publication date 19 February 2019 | 14:12 | ICT

Sitting in a humble work space in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Tompoung II is Ky Veasna – his youthful looks, dyed auburn hair and smart-casual attire may fool you into assuming his junior status in the office.
The young Cambodian escaping poverty using the beautiful game

Publication date 12 February 2019 | 14:41 | ICT

Tucked away in a neglected slum area near Boeung Kak Lake, a young aspiring football coach is harnessing the power of sport for social empowerment and to improve the lives of some of the nation’s poorest children through his charita
The mobile libraries servicing isolated communities

Publication date 05 February 2019 | 17:33 | ICT

Aide et Action works in eight provinces operating permanent libraries, as well as providing mobile libraries to 14 villages a week.
Transforming Cambodian lives: From construction to baby chicks

Publication date 29 January 2019 | 14:00 | ICT

FROM the age of 16, Keam Korng would wake up each day at the crack of dawn to ride his ageing motorbike the more than 20km from Dounkeo commune to Pouk district for his construction job.
Fast books: The mobile libraries servicing isolated communities

Publication date 28 January 2019 | 11:52 | ICT

One Thursday afternoon after Ta Porng Nuy has finished his work on a yam field in rural Ratanakiri Province, he gathers a selection of books on his three wheeled motorbike, driving it to a nearby town and parking it in the shadow of
The backpack ‘social entrepreneurs’ giving back to Cambodian students

Publication date 22 January 2019 | 15:06 | ICT

When Canadian siblings Anika and Michael Funk founded ethically focused travel company Banana Backpacks in 2017, they had a very clear vision for what they intended to accomplish.