EGBOK Mission volunteers write from the field.
By Rob Abramoff, October 2011 - Siem Reap Cambodia is flooded in more ways than one. Many of the streets are underwater and bicycles and motos are having to be replaced with trucks and boats. On a brighter side however, Siem Reap is also flooded with excitement as EGBOK Mission students are working hard all [read more…]
By Annie Place, February 2011 - Transition — in all shapes and colors — refers to many things I have experienced over the past five months in Cambodia volunteering with EGBOK Mission, an international non-profit empowering underprivileged youth with the educational and vocational training needed to support themselves as hospitality professionals. However, there are two [read more…]
By Elizabeth Mundy, September 2010 - EGBOK Mission has brought many tangible things to Children’s Orphanage Samrong: a curriculum, a projector, and school supplies. But it has also introduced a unique approach to learning that has been incredibly successful. EGBOK Mission teaches its students that the learning process is a reciprocal, continuous cycle. Learning and [read more…]
By Lindsey Brous, August 2010 - After 10 weeks in Cambodia, very little surprises me anymore. Crashing into a cow while riding on a tuk-tuk (Cambodian taxi) is no sweat. On a recent trip with the students I ate intestines, picked up Cambodian hitchhikers and played barefoot in the rain in the middle of a [read more…]
I have always been puzzled by the term “culture shock.” Never having traveled abroad before this summer, I simply could not understand how two places in the world could be so drastically different that such strange symptoms or feelings could spring about. Weeks before my arrival in Cambodia, I wondered if I would experience this [read more…]
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