Cambodia Blogs

The HOPE Study Tour is called UNION, an acronym for Understanding Needs In Other Nations, and the tours include project site visits that are designed to help participants "learn about problems faced by people living in poverty in developing countries and to understand their needs.

Our projects in Cambodia began in 2002 with the building of a well near the center of Pursat Province, where HOPE Cambodia’s office is located. The first well was just a dot on a map, but with successive projects, it became a line, and now our wells cover a large area providing clean water to more than 10,000 people.

In August 2022, when our HOPE Cambodian staff visited Oeun, she was hard at work in the fields under the scorching sun as usual. Oeun met with HOPE about 20 years ago.

HOPE-JP exceeded our goal in the crowdfunding campaign raising money to build a school for Cambodian children. The amount raised was in excess of 3.5 million Yen.

The pandemic is still raging relentlessly. Amongst the anguish that it is causing to our medical professionals and the problems to the economy, will the vaccines shine a ray of light of hope?

The SHG program, short for Self-Help Group, is run by HOPE in Ethiopia and it is designed to empower women socially and economically. The program encourages women in the villages to form groups and learn about savings and running businesses together, eventually helping their families become financially independent.

With the support of the HOPE International Development Agency, five students and one teacher ran a Cambodian Charity Bicycle Ride for eleven days from February 5th to the 15th, 2020. They spent two days at the HOPE project site in Pursat where we visited two homes.

Have you ever heard of dry season rice? If you are anything like me before I started volunteering for HOPE Japan in 2018, the answer is probably not. But don’t worry. Last December, I went to Cambodia to meet the families that received HOPE's support to grow dry season rice and I am here to share with you what I found out.

Rina, a HOPE-JP intern, and Rachel, an intern from HOPE Canada, spent a total of 25 days in the Pursat province staying in schools in different villages each week. This is Rina's reflections of the experience.