The Projects page has a dashboard snapshot of Building Cambodia impact since 2002 when stats began. Here it is for quick reference. A few highlights from this very impressive story. Wells are no longer a focus, but they occasionally arise as a community need. We are seeing the clean water well as the first step on a village scale before moving on to family-specific toilets. The pace of toilet construction picked up in 2023. This aligns with country development needs and loca

I typed in cambodiasam.blogspot.com out of sheer curiosity while in Cambodia this year. That was the site I used to track our adventures in helping people. Shockingly it still works. And there's a ton of amazing detail in there. It covers 2008 through 2017. Fear griped me. I have no idea how long blogspot will continue to be around, if they might change policies on old content, or what else might happen. Perhaps an AI rewrite of history? Anything is possible. Out of an abund

We have an amazing team of people in Cambodia. Mr. Sok and his family received the the three of us (Diane, Deanna, and Sam) at his home again this year. He'll be distributing four solar lights to nearby families who do not have electricity. Plus he will resume teaching basic computer skills via a replacement laptop. The previous one was probably 10 years old and showed substantial wear and tear by living in the countryside. Prem took the picture so he's behind the camera. "Dr

There's a lot going on in this picture. Twenty years ago there were no smart phones. You used your cell phone to talk to people, a PDA to keep track of your calendar and contacts, and a camera to take decent pictures. Mr. Sok (second from the left) hosted us back then to teach computer classes. We used a full size desktop PC, old-style CRT monitor, and a gas powered generator to turn it on when the electricity went out. Which was often. This week we set up Mr. Sok with our pr