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JUNE 7, 2010

Photo by Geoff Livingston, Zoetica. But there is another very important personal reason to purchase the book on June 21st, I’m donating all of the proceeds from my share of the royalties to the Sharing Foundation , a nonprofit that cares for orphans in Cambodia. You are invited to a virtual book launch party !

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APRIL 29, 2005

I started to find great expat blogs about Cambodia, particularly sweetcucumber and started to follow the links of the comments and found another blog which referenced Elizabeth's project. I am hoping that I can set up something with my son's class and the kids she is working in Cambodia over the next year. I emailed her.

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DECEMBER 31, 2007

From Nhung Son's Facebook Photos Two weeks ago, Blogger Michele Martin , set up an America's Giving Challenge widget for the Sharing Foundation to support the project over at Global Giving. For most children in Cambodia this is a story that is all too common. Most children are illiterate and work on the family farm.

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MAY 17, 2012

It includes personal testimonies, photographs, and artifacts. Another exhibit looks at past massacres in Armenia, Bosnia, Cambodia, The Holocaust, and other places of the world where genocide has taken place. They wanted to share their stories on my blog and through video and photos. Here is their stories.

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JUNE 4, 2012

How One NGO Serves 70,000 Children. Speaking of impact, London, England-based Childreach International works in partnership with local communities in the developing world to help improve children’s access to healthcare, education, child rights, and protection. It has just 20 UK-based staff.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Note from Beth: As a supporter of the work that the Sharing Foundation does for children in Cambodia, I’ve seen first hand the value of literacy programs in developing countries. What a photo find!! in Kenya with Mary, 10, circa 2006]. I then went on to lead social innovation at Twitter; she went on to study medicine.

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JANUARY 29, 2008

The Sharing Foundation's mission is to help meet the physical, emotional, educational and medical needs of orphaned and seriously disadvantaged children in Cambodia. Beth is on the Board of the Foundation, and she and her husband have two children, Harry and Sara, who were adopted as orphans from Cambodia.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Winners of the Creative Commons Photo Contest, 2006. I'm working on a piece for the BlogHer Holiday Guide about encouraging children to contribute causes and charities. In our family, I involve my kids in various fundraising activities - from Cambodia to Creative Commons.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Photo by Oblivion 9999. I have a particular interest area (Cambodia children) and I'm on the board of the Sharing Foundation. Nonprofit experts cite many reasons that focusing on an overhead ratio is not the best way to choose a charity: It tells you nothing about the impact the charity has on people it's trying to help.

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DECEMBER 29, 2006

Sina, age 15, is an orphan and head of her family -- two younger sisters aged 11 and 8 (Sina is in photo with the white shirt and blue shorts on the left). Sina helps makes school uniforms that the Foundation provides to over 1,000 street children in Cambodia so they can attend school. s garment industry.

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JANUARY 9, 2008

I celebrated with a flickr photo birthday card remix contest. That's a photo of me celebrating my 5th birthday oh so many years ago. It represents a new standard of hygiene, medical services, nutrition, and compassionate care for children in Cambodia. My birthday is on Friday, January 11th. Last year for the big 5.0,

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JANUARY 14, 2008

Cambodia4kids Flickr Photos. That's a photo I took this summer of a child at the Sharing Foundation 's Roteang Orphanage. In fact, the photo I took of my kids wearing it won the Creative Commons photo contest ! To learn more about the Sharing Foundation, see this article ) I've been reaching out to all my networks.

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MARCH 7, 2007

Leng Sopharath is one of 19 college students being sponsored for college through a program of the Sharing Foundation , an ngo that works directly with local officials, orphanages, and NGOs in Cambodia to identify and carry out projects which improve the lives of children. The photo above came in today's letter from Leng Sopharath.

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MARCH 30, 2008

When we decided to adopt from Cambodia, we tried to learn as much as possible about the country. Dith Pran came to a New Year's Celebration at a friend's home that included many children adopted from Cambodia. I sent him the photo above that I snapped him holding Harry. He gave me a photography tips.

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AUGUST 7, 2007

On my first trip to Cambodia, I photographed a pair of red baby sneakers in front of famous landmarks in Cambodia with the idea of writing a children's book, "Where Are Harry's Red Shoes in Cambodia." " I took hundreds of photos. I like to listen to my favorite khmer group, Dengue Fever.

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JULY 24, 2007

I love that photo. I took it during my last trip to Cambodia, almost three years ago. Those kids are the children of the poorest villagers in Roteang Village. Their parents are working on our farm project. We built a new school building for them - and the school is a literacy program. A sort of Headstart program.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

I am beginning to post the photos, videos, and notes that I took while I was there. August 31st: Cambodia Bloggers Awards Ceremony. I figured it would have a better life in Cambodia since there was a presentation about podcasting. Here is what he wrote: I want a digital camera for helping attract more tourism for Cambodia.

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JUNE 26, 2013

He loved my Mom, his four children, and 7 grandchildren dearly. The last good photo we took together was as “selfie,” although in 1963 we took one together using his Minox camera. Please donate to SurfRider Foundation in his memory. Tribute to My Dad. With 6 out 7 grandchildren. ” He wanted to learn how to blog.

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APRIL 13, 2007

I will do some video blogging and take photos. If you are curious Cambodia New Year, you can learn about it here - a curriculum and materials I created for other adoptive parents so they could bring the Khmer celebration into their children's classrooms. I need to brush up, especially how to drap the white prayer scarf.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2007

photo by Oso Sopheap blogs at ifocus with the tagline ???three This was a trip to bring urban young people to experience life in a rural area and to deliver school supplies for children who live in the province and are very poor. I can talk about my volunteer efforts to help poor children in the remote province.

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JANUARY 27, 2008

In Cambodia, Dr. Hendrie has gradually hired and mentored fifty-seven Cambodians who???ve The photo above is the Sharing Foundation's in-country director Chan Kim Leng, known as "Elephant" who grew up in the jungle and saw his five-year-old broth killer by the Khmer Rouge. Please go read it. Dr. Nancy is an inspiration!

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JANUARY 10, 2008

TSF has helped support a poor school named Beng Krom School, with 595 grammar school children on the far side of the Mekong. s children really need three latrines to expand from the two they have for all their children and teachers. I was relieved that she didn't use the naked photo of me. Now Beng Krom???s

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DECEMBER 29, 2006

Nancy Hendrie and Tep Vuthea Photo from flickr. Almost ten years ago, she founded a nonprofit organization, The Sharing Foundation , dedicated to meeting the physical, emotional, educational, and medical needs of orphaned and seriously- disadvantaged children in Cambodia. Why Cambodia? s garment industry.

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JANUARY 9, 2008

I took that photo back in 2004 when I had the opportunity to visit Cambodia and observe all programs for a week. The children sat at their desks, quietly writing the khmer letters on their little chalk boards. Heres a recent photo of Jack and Mom taken in December 2007. Is that cool - the literacy school is green!

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

DC Metblogger Flickr Photo. But when I realized it would take a long time before a small NGO working in a country, like say, Cambodia, might be able to purchase a small number of them (less than 100) to outfit a school, I was disappointed. So, maybe they will make it easier for people who want to support specific schools and children.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo in my flickr stream here. Every time Dr. Hendrie travels back from Cambodia, we had a special briefing meeting for the Sharing Foundation volunteers and board members. Dr. Hendrie passed around this photo of the 600 kids who now will be able to attend school because they have school uniforms.

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JULY 23, 2006

A quick search through Flickr resulted in many photos of beautiful, but toothless children, tooth fairy pillows , a pair of tooth fairies from a dental school, notes to the tooth fairy a dog's visit from the tooth fairy and children's notes to the tooth fairy like the one depicted in the photograph above.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2007

Whether I'm raising money for Cambodia or Creative Commons , I try to include them in some way. We have dinner table discussions on why it is important to support causes, particularly programs in Cambodia like the Sharing Foundation. Name your children after them. " Be A Role Model of Generosity.

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APRIL 16, 2006

No time to show him how to use the camera, so not the best photo. The party took place in the school's gym which had wonderful oil paintings of Cambodia hanging on the walls (for example, this one ). Everyone was posing in front of it for photos. Sara was busy dancing with some local children. And so did Harry.

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DECEMBER 8, 2006

Having implemented a successful campaign to raise the money to support a young college student named Leng Sopharath in Cambodia that raised $872 using the ChipIn widget, I set up a charity badge over at Network for Good to support the Sharing Foundation's educational programs which provide educational opportunities for over 1,300 children.

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AUGUST 2, 2012

By the time you read this post, I’ll be in Cambodia. For those of you who have been following my blogging since 2004, you know why Cambodia is in my heart! We promised the monk that we would hold Cambodia in our hearts and travel back with our children to their birth country when they were old enough to appreciate it.

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DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. I have two favorites: The Sharing Foundation which supports children in Cambodia and Creative Commons.

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JANUARY 30, 2008

The photo above is of me, Cheryl Hanback, and Joel Remigio from 2002 when we won the "Swimming Upstream Award" for the diligent staff person who worked on the Riders Conference to make it a success. We hold a fundamental belief that technology and all of its benefits must be made available to everyone??? MediaJumpStart, 2002).

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JUNE 23, 2006

Nancy live blogged Linda Stone's presentation and flickred lots of photos ) I think Annette's points on improving the conference dialogue between ideamakers and toolmakers is something that might be useful at the NTC Conference hosted by N-TEN. Photo Credit: on Flickr by Beth Kanter

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DECEMBER 30, 2008

In less than 24 hours, I've raised $806 to help children in Cambodia using a new feature in Facebook Causes. Whether you want to raise money for clean water in Ethiopia, vaccinations for children in Haiti, or a safe home for a puppy in Mississipi, with a Birthday Cause your friends can give in honor of your special day.

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JANUARY 13, 2009

Photo emailed from Cambodia by Elephant, Sharing Foundation 's in-country director In this post, I share some learnings as a free agent fundraise r (an individual who uses personal fundraising to raise money for a charity) who is leveraging their personal network to support a nonprofit's programs that help children in need.

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JANUARY 7, 2010

This year I'm indulging in three of my passions: raising money for Cambodian children with social media, teaching a social media nonprofit strategy class, and eating chocolate. This year I'm indulging in three of my passions: raising money for Cambodian children with social media, teaching a social media nonprofit strategy class, and.

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