I had a very different view about charity and AID till I heard MIT professor Iqbal Qadir in 2009 presenting how the foreign AID had disempowered so many people in the developing world. The following facts Prof. Qadir presented were shocking – 1. 5 trillion USD were spent by the western donor countries in Africa in the last …
SCH CHANGEMAKERS SUPPORT COVID NEEDS AT HOME AND WOMEN IN NEED IN CAMBODIA MAY 14, 2020 – Authors – Mia Costonis and Alysa Akins, SCH, PA During the holidays, Springside Chestnut Hill Academy students Mia Costonis ’21 and Alysa Akins ’20 ran a thriving pop-up shop selling beautiful hand-woven scarves imported from Cambodia at Serendipity on Germantown …
A few years ago, we had a vision to co create a social business that could empower families in developing countries. Through our development work in Asia and Africa, we had found that most of the development initiatives had failed and we were looking for the answers. We came across Ernesto Sirolli’s great TED talk which inspired …
We established Cambodian Craft Village because we saw the amazing rebirth Cambodia is experiencing, and wanted to create a socially responsible marketplace to bring Khmer culture and art to the world. We work with women artisans in Siem Reap and train them with skills that promise fair earnings and opportunities for them to take charge of their …
According to a study by the World Bank, the growing body of evidence proves the linkages between empowerment and effectiveness of the development on the society and personal grassroots level. Personal empowerment by its very definition requires increasing our actual influence within our social sphere, whether we do so within our relationships our larger social …
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Happiness, albeit “true” happiness , not the feigned kind we muster when out and about and in front of people, seems an elusive thing. Some say, it’s almost like a unicorn, in that it is so rare, or non-existent. This feature is about an amazing gentleman, who not only searched for his “unicorn” …
The first weaving project which was established in June 2013 in Takeo, Cambodia with the support from 30 friends and it reached sustainability by Dec 2013, well ahead of the initial forecasted period. The weaving village now produces over 500 cotton scarves each month, most of which are sold to international tourists who visit the …
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