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Category: Cambodia
Curve Ball
We have been thrown another curve ball. Sdam had his long-awaited citizenship interview last week. Up until this point, and even after leaving his interview, we had good reason to believe he would soon be a citizen and we would soon be returning to Cambodia. But a few hours after returning home, we received a…
Happy Khmer New Year
Sdam and I have exciting news to share. After over 2 years of filling out paperwork, collecting documents, and a lot of waiting, Sdam now has a immigrant visa to the USA!!! We have been planning for this day for a while and now we actually have plane tickets bought and a date on the…
Family Time
First of all, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The end of the year goes by quickly, right? My parents came to visit us once again, and it is always such a blessing to have them here. While they were here, they got to attend their first Khmer wedding. Sdam’s little sister got married…
Loving Your Neighbor
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…
Gifts
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…
Team Work
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,…
Christmas on Koh Rong
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…
Out in the Field
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…
Hot Season
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…
Late New Year
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…