Phnom Penh Post - Around NGOs
WordsBy2 game puts ‘fun’ in NGO funding
Wordsby2 – an iOS mobile game app by the education and technology company Apptessence – gives you a chance to enjoy yourself while helping others by supporting NGOs doing important work while vying for cash prizes.
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Cambodia Women’s Support Group helping poor gain financial stability
Mon, 25 Apr 2022 | 09:04Sitting in a tiny space with both hands busy controlling the tip of her needle as her stitches give form to the green fabric, Sok Nhei is happy to be filling an order for 10 plush crocodiles from a customer.
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Inclusive NGO uplifts urban poor, disabled
Mon, 28 Mar 2022 | 09:00Phnom Penh has experienced rapid urbanisation and growth in recent years, resulting in the expansion of “urban poor” communities with limited access to the normal provision of public utilities because they aren’t property owners or tenants in the traditional sense and lack resources and legal
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NGO mitigates Covid money woes of poor
Wed, 23 Feb 2022 | 09:08The past two years of pandemic-induced economic hardships have taken a heavy toll on some of Cambodia’s poorest and most vulnerable citizens.
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Ministry and consortium of 30 NGOs join hands to reduce school closure dropouts
Sun, 7 Nov 2021 | 08:23For eight months, all public and private schools were closed following the so-called February 20 community outbreak of Covid-19.
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Little Hearts planning expansion of not-so-random kindness campaign
Mon, 25 Oct 2021 | 09:02Little Hearts Organisation (LHO) is an NGO that provides abandoned children with quality educations while also giving support to impoverished families in order to make it less likely that situations as extreme as abandonment ever occur in the first place.
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Local4Local’s cyclo pantries bring meals on wheels to capital’s needy
Tue, 7 Sep 2021 | 07:26A fleet of cyclos – each one carrying a refrigerator-like box – are ready to travel throughout the city to collect donated items and distribute them to people in need.
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Penh Lenh empowering women with artisan jobs in ethical fashion industry
Sun, 22 Aug 2021 | 08:13The shiny hoop earrings worn by model Binx Walton recently on the cover of Vogue Italia are more than just a fashion statement.
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Potty in pink: Rural school’s colourful washroom helping girls stay healthy
Sun, 15 Aug 2021 | 07:45In a public high school in Kampong Cham province, a newly built bright pink washroom means more than just a place for female students to relieve themselves.
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REACH gives kids a ride out of poverty
Tue, 2 Feb 2021 | 09:57Australian-born Emily Williamson is one of the founders of the Siem Reap-based NGO REACH, which sponsors a variety of programs with the broad goal of alleviating the deleterious effects of poverty that often prevent the poor from improving their circumstances from one generation to the next without
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SGC running projects to support village school
Tue, 5 Jan 2021 | 08:55Hannes Schmid, a professional photographer and artist from Switzerland, met a Cambodian girl who had been forced to beg for money on the streets of Thailand back when he visited there in 2012.
