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WHERE THE RED EARTH BROKE, A Memoir of Cambodia, Mercy, and the Cost of Rescue:We're seeking feedback on the proposed co...
07/23/2026

WHERE THE RED EARTH BROKE, A Memoir of Cambodia, Mercy, and the Cost of Rescue:

We're seeking feedback on the proposed cover for "Where the Red Earth Broke.

Where the Red Earth Broke continues the journey begun in The Road to Kitgum, returning to Cambodia and to the villages where building a school could begin with little more than a promise.

The memoir follows the building of Omaneash and O'Russey primary schools and the search for a remote jungle site that would become Preah Khol Primary School. Along the way, the work draws Chase deeper into the lives of children and families confronting poverty, exploitation, and the threat of human trafficking.

But the journey carries a personal cost. During a trip into the Cambodian jungle, Chase suffers a life-threatening medical collapse. What began as another effort to reach a village becomes a struggle to survive and, eventually, to make his way home.

We'd love your thoughts on the cover. Comment below.

The Road to Kitgum is Complete:The Road to Kitgum, A Memoir of Cambodia, Uganda, and the Search for a Lost Child, recoun...
06/17/2026

The Road to Kitgum is Complete:

The Road to Kitgum, A Memoir of Cambodia, Uganda, and the Search for a Lost Child, recounts the Teach Them To Fish Foundation's work building primary schools in remote Cambodia and Uganda, with a focus on educating girls at risk of exploitation.

Established by Chase Sizemore in 2006, the Foundation began with a school for 380 children in Battambang Province, Cambodia. It later expanded into Uganda, where children faced poverty, disease, violence, and the aftermath of civil war.

At Kanyanga Primary School, a student's note led Chase into the search for Akiki, a boy abducted years earlier by the Lord's Resistance Army and believed to be injured in an internally displaced persons camp near Kitgum. The search takes Chase through displacement camps and disputed territory in a dangerous rescue effort to find a child who had been taken by war and nearly lost to memory.

The Road to Kitgum is a story of compassion, courage, and the power of education to bring hope to children the world has too often forgotten. It took years to live and years more to write. I owe a deep debt of gratitude to everyone who encouraged me, supported the work, and helped me bring these stories to the page.

SCHOOLS IN CAMBODIA:Today, someone asked me, “How many students do you have in your primary schools in Cambodia?”As of A...
04/12/2026

SCHOOLS IN CAMBODIA:

Today, someone asked me, “How many students do you have in your primary schools in Cambodia?”

As of April 11, 2026, our current enrollment stands at 1,797 students, each one a child who now has access to education, opportunity, and hope for a brighter future.

In communities where education is often out of reach, especially for girls at risk of trafficking, these schools are more than classrooms. They are safe spaces, lifelines, and pathways to independence. Every student represents a story being rewritten: from vulnerability to possibility.

And we’re not stopping here.

Our goal this year is to welcome 600 more students, 600 more children who will gain the tools to read, to dream, and to build a different future for themselves and their communities.

Thank you to everyone who continues to believe in our Creator's mission. Together, we are not just building schools. We are changing lives. 💛

03/21/2026

A meal can change everything.

This fiscal year, Teach Them To Fish Foundation is working to provide more than 325,000 meals to kindergarten through 6th-grade students at our primary schools in rural Cambodia, helping children stay in school, learn, and thrive.

For many of these students, our lunch, which consists of rice, locally sourced protein such as chicken or fish, and fresh vegetables, provides approximately 650–850 calories per child and makes their education possible.

And the cost of one meal? Just $0.44.

🎥 See the impact of these meals in action.

With your support, we can turn this goal into reality.

We’re excited to welcome new leadership to our growing mission.We’re proud to share an exciting new chapter for Teach Th...
03/21/2026

We’re excited to welcome new leadership to our growing mission.

We’re proud to share an exciting new chapter for Teach Them To Fish Foundation. 🌍✨

Please join us in welcoming Aaron Diamond as our new Chief Development Officer.

As we continue building primary schools in rural Cambodia and Uganda for vulnerable children who otherwise have no access to education, Aaron’s leadership will help us grow our impact even further. Our work is especially focused on empowering young girls at risk of human trafficking—because education is one of the most powerful tools for prevention and long-term change.

Aaron brings the experience, passion, and vision needed to help us reach more communities, build more schools, and create brighter futures.

We’re thrilled to have him on this journey with us.

Welcome to the team, Aaron! 👏

💧 HELP BRING CLEAN WATER TO PREAH KHOL PRIMARY SCHOOL (CAMBODIA):Last month, we completed digging a 60-meter (197-foot) ...
03/16/2026

💧 HELP BRING CLEAN WATER TO PREAH KHOL PRIMARY SCHOOL (CAMBODIA):

Last month, we completed digging a 60-meter (197-foot) deep water well for Preah Khol Primary School in Preah Vihear Province, Cambodia. The well has been successfully drilled and capped, and it’s ready to provide clean water for the students and community. However, we still need to install the equipment that will make the water accessible. We are currently raising funds to purchase:

• A water pump
• A pump motor
• A generator

Once installed, this system will provide reliable access to clean water for the children and staff at the school.

Clean water will improve health, sanitation, and daily life for the students who currently have limited access to safe water.

🙏 Would you consider helping us complete this project?

Any contribution — large or small — will help bring clean water to these students. www.TeachThemToFish.Org/Donate

If you would like to support this project or learn more, please send me a message.

Thank you for helping us make a difference.
Chase

When Girls DreamImagine you're a young girl growing up in rural Uganda. The sun has just risen. You kiss your mother goo...
03/14/2026

When Girls Dream

Imagine you're a young girl growing up in rural Uganda. The sun has just risen. You kiss your mother goodbye and head off for your first day of school. You start the long walk that you hope will lead to a better future for you and your family. Though you might not realize it, you're one of the lucky ones. Across the African continent, more than 42 million children lack access to any education. Over 70% of these children are girls like you.

You are grateful for the opportunity your family provides. You work hard in school, but you know there are several obstacles you must overcome to qualify for secondary school. Your family survives on less than a dollar a day. Your brother will soon be old enough to start first grade. If there isn't enough money for both of you to go to school, your parents will send your brother instead of you. Even if you are allowed to continue your education, there is already talk of finding a husband for you. Your mother married at thirteen, and the same fate might be in store for you. Many girls in your village, aged twelve or thirteen, whose parents have forbidden them from attending school, are already pregnant.

Your education gives you a sense of self-worth and the courage to resist threats of sexual coercion. In addition to your core classes, you also attend health education sessions. You learn about reproductive health and the importance of good sanitation in preventing and spreading HIV and AIDS. As a result, infection rates among your classmates are significantly lower than in the rest of your village. You start sharing this knowledge with your family, friends, and anyone willing to listen. You dream of becoming a nurse or perhaps even a doctor for the first time.

There are other challenges. Not long after you reach puberty, your mother runs out of money to buy sanitary napkins. You can't go outside because others will humiliate you, and you feel hurt. Only a few pieces of absorbent paper prevent you from missing school. A few days later, your teacher visits your family and gives you enough sanitary pads to return to class the next day.

Your success inspires your mother to find ways to earn enough money to send your sisters to school as well. She joins a local savings group and uses the five-dollar loan it provides her to travel to a distant market and sell her crops for a few extra dollars.

Soon, your walk to school is joined by your siblings and more children from your village who want to follow in your footsteps.

Inspired by your vision of becoming a doctor, you pass your exams with “flying colors.” You were the first in your family to enter primary school; now you are the only one in secondary school. Suddenly, a few short years ago, what seemed like an impossible dream became an unstoppable reality.

All across Uganda today, thousands of young girls are beginning their school careers full of potential and hope. With your support, the Teach Them To Fish Foundation will help some of these children fulfill that potential. The need for funds is so acute that even a tiny donation can positively affect the lives of hundreds of girls and, through them, the lives of numerous families and their communities.

02/10/2026

MEALS AT SCHOOL: PREAH KHOL PRIMARY SCHOOL:

Today was a powerful reminder of what kindness can do. 💛
Thanks to the generosity of our donors, students at Preah Khol Primary School in Preah Vihear Province, Cambodia, received rice packages to take home, simple bags of rice that mean full meals, comfort, and hope for their families.

Together, our donors made it possible to purchase nearly 4 metric tons of rice, launching our Meals at School program. This support comes at a critical time, as the recent fighting along the Thai–Cambodian border has disrupted daily life and kept many children away from school since the conflict flared up again in December 2025.

For these students, food at school is more than nutrition. It’s a reason to return to the classroom, to keep learning, and to feel safe and supported during uncertain times.

From all of us, and from the children and families of Preah Khol, thank you for standing with them. Your compassion is helping turn hardship into opportunity, one meal at a time. 🍚📚💛

01/19/2026

PREAH KHOL PRIMARY SCHOOL WATER-WELL UPDATE – Part 2:

We found water at Prey Khol! 💧

Watch the moment clean water began flowing at the school’s new well. This will change daily life for so many children and families — better health, better learning, better futures.
Thank you for being part of this beautiful step forward.

In Memory of Yvonne “Tiny” DeCory (Guardian of Pine Ridge Youth):Today, we lost Yvonne “Tiny” DeCory — a woman whose lif...
01/06/2026

In Memory of Yvonne “Tiny” DeCory (Guardian of Pine Ridge Youth):

Today, we lost Yvonne “Tiny” DeCory — a woman whose life force stood between an entire generation of Oglala Lakota youth and silence.

Tiny was not a figurehead. She was not symbolic. She was not distant. She was in the snow, in the middle of the night, in hospital rooms, in kitchens with empty cupboards, on phones that never stopped ringing. She was present — relentlessly, imperfectly, fiercely.

For nearly two decades, I worked beside Tiny at Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Our relationship was real. We bickered. We pushed each other. We disagreed. But what never wavered was her devotion to her people. Her heart was not performative — it was operational. It was lived.

Tiny did not manage a crisis response program. She was the crisis response.

She stood in the eye of a su***de epidemic and refused to step away.

She created lifelines — not “programming,” but human lifelines — for youth who had been told in every quiet way that they did not matter. She answered phones at 3 a.m. She sat with grieving mothers. She rode with attempt survivors to hospitals. She fed families who had nothing. She wrapped young people in dignity, ceremony, prayer, and presence — and told them, again and again: You are not alone.

Tiny’s fingerprints are on every student, every young adult, every mother, every family who survived because someone showed up when no system would.

Her passing is not only personal — it is structural. It is cultural. It is a loss to Indian Country, to community-based healing, to youth who still need someone who refuses to disappear when things get hard.

We will carry her spirit forward.

We will protect what she stood for.

We will speak her name where decisions are made.

Because Tiny DeCory did not save lives quietly — she changed what survival looked like.

And we will not let that disappear.

Chase Sizemore
Teach Them To Fish Foundation
Livivi PBC

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