Caring for Cambodia - Lehigh University Partnership

"While it is both our privilege and responsibility to celebrate children each and every day, today gives us an opportunity to share with the world the ways in which we protect and support the next generation." Audree Sothy

Celebrating International Children’s Day Through Photography: A Day at Cambodian Schools Co-Authored by Whitney Szmodis and Audree-Chase Mayoral Today we celebrate the centuries-old tradition of International Children's Day. Since its ...

In an op-ed for The Huffington Post, co-authors Sothy Eng, Lehigh University professor, and graduate student Laura Dean, write: "Given how globalized the world is becoming, however, Cambodia has to not only restore its schools and culture but also keep up with the ever-increasingly competitive global economy and workforce. The problem facing the government and its people is that it barely has enough energy, resources and opportunity to do so. It seems as though it needs an innovative answer to address the very real issues the country faces in building back up to its once famous name, the 'Pearl of Asia.'" (17 April)

What Arts Education Could Offer to Cambodia 42 Years After the Khmer Rouge Regime Co-authored by Laura Dean April 17th 2017 is Cambodia’s 42nd anniversary of the occupation of Khmer Rouge in Cambodia - a regime that killed almost...

PhD student, Kelly Grace, presented her gender equity research with the data she collected from the CFC preschools, during the annual conference of the Comparative and International Education Society in Atlanta, Georgia earlier in March. CFC's Chief Operating Officer, Natalie Bastow, also attended the session.

Lehigh's Global Citizenship program in Cambodia over winter break earlier this year

Global Citizenship students travel to Cambodia - The Brown and White Members of Lehigh's Global Citizenship Program spent 12 days exploring the culture, education and government of Cambodia over winter break.

Check out the Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs for a review of the book “The Political Economy of Schooling in Cambodia: Issues of Quality and Equity” by Kelly Grace and Dr. Sothy Eng. The review brings wider exposure to the current education issues in Cambodia that the LU-CFC partnership works to address. https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jsaa/article/view/1016/1018

On January 21, CFC celebrates its 14th anniversary. On behalf of the Lehigh-Caring for Cambodia partnership, we would like to celebrate the commitment CFC has made to not only the lives of thousands of students in Cambodia, but also to students here at Lehigh. More than 150 Lehigh students have traveled to Cambodia to work with CFC schools as researchers, evaluators, and interns providing them with theory-to-practice experiences. CFC's remarkable work provides educators with evidence of what it takes in the developing world to promote education and truly make a difference.

We will have info session for 2017 Iacocca Summer Internship to Cambodia Session tomorrow, Wednesday Dec 7th at 3pm, at Iacocca Hall, room A325. Come join us!

Mike is participating in the Angkor Half Marathon in Siem Reap, Cambodia to raise funds for Lehigh students working on completing their school information management project. This project will help save Cambodian teachers a tremendous amount of time--several hours per week-- from manually recording students' data. Imagine if you have 50 students in a classroom and you have to write and record everything from their name to their attendance to their grades each and every week. What if they could just copy and paste the information week to week in a computer system? This is what CSB team at Lehigh is working on in collaboration with a Cambodian-based technology company--CAMEMIS. Lehigh students are helping to tailor the database to the needs of the teachers in Cambodia, while honing their own skills as Computer Science and Business majors. This project will not only have impact on all Cambodian schools in the nation, but also on the dozens of Lehigh students participating in the project. Please support Mike in his efforts to make this project a reality. Mike Horgan

Raise Money for CFC: Mike Horgan Almost two years ago now, while studying at Lehigh, I had the incredible opportunity to visit Cambodia through an academic program. On our visit we went to the Angkor Wat Temples in Siem Reap and I was astonished to find race paint marks on the roads. I soon discovered that there was a half marathon...

Joe Brereton, Lehigh CIE Ph.D. student, received the 2016 National Distinguished Principal award by the Pennsylvania Principals Association in Washington DC last week. Congratulations, Joe! This Fall, Joe will be traveling with us to Cambodia to work with CFC principals for professional development workshops and a research study.

CFC Club is having a fundraising event at Chipotle at the Airport Road between 5-9 today, Tuesday. 50% of the proceeds will go to CFC. Hope to see you there. Faith Rayches Corina Fitzgerald Jenna Pastorini

Come to Revolutions this Thursday 9/22 between 7-10pm to bowl, eat, drink and be merry while helping children in Cambodia get an education! Be sure to bring the flyer SEE YOU ALL THERE :)