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| Kenny King with Cambodian student (Photo courtesy of Kurt Berning) |
6/4/2011
Catholic Sentinel (USA)
Kenny King and Kurt Berning, students at the University of Portland, have raised more $20,000 for education in Cambodia. King and Berning are the founders of Global Alliance for Developing Education, a non-profit that is dedicated to building education in developing countries. The money was raised at a gourmet meal and auction held at the North Portland school.
King and Berning also took first place in the non-profit category at the $100K Challenge, a business plan competition hosted by the University’s Entrepreneur Scholar program and Pamplin School of Business.
The organization's strategies include expanding an existing microfinance program, building a secondary school, training teachers and providing scholarships for high school students to attend college.
The two recently traveled to Cambodia.
“The trip has inspired me to work tirelessly to improve the quality of schools in Cambodia and offer opportunities to the deserving students,” said Berning. “The need in these schools is dire, and even a relatively small amount of money in the U.S. can make a dramatic impact on the life of a Cambodian student.”
4 comments:
Donors are better come here and donate directly the people, any money come to the CPP which mean for the people never reached them.
this is the seaon why i prefer white, caucasion people who are educated to come help cambodia and make cambodia a better country for all to enjoy, you know! god bless cambodia! most educated people like to use the rule of law and make analysis before they stereotype or make bad judgment on cambodia, you know. most of them want to help cambodia and khmer people in cambodia and do god's work to help cambodia in the name of humanity, environment protection, etc, etc, you know! that, i really like about educated caucasian people from america, europe or wherever else, really! welcome to cambodia. we love and want america strong influence in the 21st century cambodia, ok! god bless.
thankful to American spirit culture.
condemning to those Khmer who say and think:
Americans are evil-
Khmer Americans are traitor who ran away from Cambodia-
Education in Cambodia is only supported by Hun Sen-
Hun Sen must stop distrubuting graduation diploma as he is the symbol of idiot not academic representation.
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