lørdag 7. februar 2015

Good stuff in Cambodia which is run by christian organizations or organizations based of Christian values.

Being back in PhnomPenh has meant I was able to meet up with Ådne Berge who is a member of my congregation in Norkirken Sandnes. He is down here with two others for a week with Viator Microcredit of which he is the manager. Viator does some fantastic stuff at grass root level in countries such as Azerbaijan. See their film clip here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nliEvsVdhQA  Here is a link to Erik's blog which talks about him, Dag og Ådne's trip here this week. To my English speaking friends, sorry, you will have to use google translate. http://investeringsnettverket.tumblr.com/ 

We talked until almost midnight about the exciting things he is involved with, both here in Cambodia and in other developing countries and about the past week and what I have been doing. We arranged to have breakfast together with the rest of his team and Steve in a french restraunt the following morning. After breakfast, which lasted a couple of hours because we were talking so much, we headed to Three Corner Coffee Company's office accross town. This is a fantastic project employing and bettering the life of girls and women previously involved in the sex industry here in Cambodia. Have a look at their website, there is pleanty of interesting information there: http://threecornercoffee.com/  I bought some coffee for Tim.

Next stop was lunch at Daughters of Cambodia, who are also helping women previously involved in the sex industry. Take a look at their website here: http://daughtersofcambodia.org/  I had a chicken caesar wrap which was very tasty! The sex industry is a sad side effect of the tourist industry, tourism is important for the economy but sadly not all tourists behave appropriately. I will be back there again before I leave Cambodia.







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