Author: Anna

September 2022 Update Anna Update Last month I traveled with a team from EMI Cambodia to the northern part of the country to visit several schools we have been helping to construct. EMI Cambodia has been partnering with Samaritan’s Purse to build these schools in rural communities. I captured these two little boys after school…

Anna Update A lot of my time over the past few months have been working on several projects for our EMI Global office. Every year, in the summer issue of our digital magazine, we publish EMI in Numbers, our annual report on project, people, and giving for the previous year. To support this publication, I…

Anna Update In January the team met for our yearly “staff days,” a two day off-site meeting to plan and make goals for the year a head. EMI Cambodia then hosted our first full volunteer project trip in almost two years. We are so thankful that the boarders remain open and easy for travel.  However,…

Merry Christmas! From the Says Anna Update EMI Cambodia remains busy, we are currently scheduling projects well into the new year. This is great improvement for us and we are proud of the hard work put in by everyone. To celebrate our achievement and the re-opening of Cambodia, the whole office had a team retreat…

Anna Update Our office has recently started up several new projects, including the construction of designs we did last year. This is good news for me, as there are more opportunities for photography at actual work sites. In July, I visited the site of Diny Sunshine, a small non-profit medical clinic being built on the…

April here in Cambodia is the month of Khmer New Year. I usually equate this as their Christmas holiday equivalent. Khmer look forward to this holiday all year, it is filled with celebration and games, most get a few days to a week off of work, and almost everyone travels back to their hometown to…

Anna Update A new year has begun! First things first, COVID update. Case count remains low, but new testing a tracing practices means we are catching more outbreaks but we can also trace them. At the moment schools are closed and religious meetings are not meeting in person, but like the rest of the world…

Sdam and I had a lovely little wedding on November 14th. Two days before the ceremony, the restaurant we had booked canceled on us because of new COVID restrictions. We reached out to friends who quickly came to help, and we had a small socially distanced wedding at the CMA office. Thankfully, Sdam’s family was…

The other day, I was reflecting on this year. For me, 2020 has been a year of forced rest and waiting. My feeling is that it’s been the same for a lot of you. Even though it’s fall up in the northern hemisphere, in my life it feels more like spring. Seeds that were planted…

Three and half years ago, when I first moved to Cambodia, I started attending a small Khmer church lead by three young Khmer men. Though all three of them led the church with grace and humility, one in particular stood out as a kind and gentle young man eager to serve the church and pastor…