In the 13 months since I heavy-heartedly left SCAO last September, Cambodia was rarely far from my mind. When I was awarded a research travel grant this Spring, I decided at once that I would return to this country that enthrals me so. As my moto driver pulled up at the school in early October […]
Leyla Sungur was a volunteer that came over with the German Red Cross for one year. She is now back home in Germany and beginning University very soon. This is her reflection on her stay at SCAO. By the time I left Cambodia and with it S.C.A.O. I can say that I have passed through […]
It is very hard to summarise my volunteering experience with SCAO in a couple of hundred words. There was so many experiences that I will never forget, so many lessons learned, and a multitude of great friends made. I arrived at the SCAO centre on the 1st of February 2012, a fresh face volunteer full […]
When I made my decision to visit Cambodia and to work there as a volunteer I didn’t really know a lot about the country. Before I decided to which country I wanted to go I had the idea of being a volunteer for a few months in another country after my final exams at High […]
My name is John Gilbert; I am 22 years old and from Newcastle, Australia. This is a brief description of my experience as a short term volunteer at S.C.A.O. I have now visited S.C.A.O. twice in the past two years. The first was in 2011 for a period of two months and the second is […]
Since my childhood I have seen broadcasted pictures of the genocide committed by the Khmer Rouge, of armed conflicts until the end of the 90s, of starving people and mutilated children. Cambodia has sunk in my consciousness as a suffering and distressed country. During my travels throughout Southeast Asia in the Spring of 2008, I […]
My husband and I visited Save Children in Asia in 2009. My daughter had volunteered at the center and she strongly advised us to stop by and visit the children. She told us it would be a life changing experience. So taking her advice we set out to visit the day care center with a […]