Daniela Papi's Blog

We have a crew of Kiwi's here now, singing "Ten Guitars" and doing the haka. They are a ton of fun! We took them to visit CLA, Cambodian Living Arts, an organization working to preserve the traditional Cambodian arts which were nearly destroyed during the Khmer Rouge years. (www.cambodianlivingarts.org) After the students performed some dances for us, our team from New Zealand performed the haka, and the kids loved it! They did the same at CCF (www.cambodianchildrensfund.org) where we had a hard time pulling everyone away at the end of an amazing night.

I am always reenergized after these trips to visit our partners. This week we are working with RDIC (www.rdic.org) and as always, I walk away reinspired about development work in Cambodia. This team is building a rainwater collection unit which will hold over 30,000 liters of water and provide a clean source of drinking water to over 500 students. It has been HOT hot hot here, but the team is really active and excited about the project, so it has been great so far!

The last few weeks have been huge for PEPY. We had the PEPY Friends team out here to mark the opening of the PEPY Friends School in Steung Treng province as well as a lively team of 20 who braved 2 hot nights in Chanleas Dai at the PEPY Ride School, teaching and painting the remaining classrooms. PEPY was also featured in National Geographic Adventure Magazine this month, so lot's of good things going on!

It looks like there will be a new winner of this scholarship soon, so I'll be saying ciao, but I look forward to finding out who that person is and what exciting things he/she will get up to! Good luck to all of the entrants!