May 2018 at ABCs and Rice

It has been another amazing month at ABCs and Rice. With visits from lots of fantastic people and some exciting things happening! We can't wait to tell you all about it! 

University of Redlands, 2018 Cambodia trip

This month brought with it th...

We're back!

After the Khmer New Year holiday, ABCs is back in school and raring to go! We're so excited to tell you everything that happened in the build up to the holiday... prepare to be amazed!

YCIS CQ VISIT!

We had the incredibly exciting event of a visit from YCIS CQ...

ABCs and Rice has been open and accessible to hundreds of children since 2009. As of one week ago, thanks to your generous support, our school is now open to all students with disabilities, including the strong little girl in the photo above, heading off to class on he...

And so, we reach the end of February (how is time moving so fast???) as expected, it's been another crazy month full of exciting things at ABCs and Rice and as we say every month, it's because of people like you who support us through everything that makes all of this...

This past week we learned how to properly wash hands! Hand washing is one of the most important tools we can use to stop the spread of germs and avoid getting sick.  In Cambodia, where 2,000 children die every year as a result of diarrheal infections caused by poor san...

Anyone who has been in Cambodia during the wet season knows what the storms can be like here. The rain comes hard, heavy and fast, sometimes with little to no warning. I'll openly admit one of the thunderstorms was so loud I woke up in the middle of the night and for t...

Our volunteers are wonderful people and their latest mission is to begin the process of monitoring BMI levels in our fabulous kids.

As many of you will know, ABCs and Rice provides two meals a day to every child as well as sending 6kg of rice home on a bimonthly basis.

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Today was our first day for a very long time without rain and that means the heat was worse than usual! However, one of our wonderful friends visited and brought the ice cream man with them!

This meant a chance for everyone to cool down! (Including the teachers and us i...

It’s the update you’ve all been waiting for… how is ABCs just over a year after the big move?

Well, what a year it has been! We’ve said hellos, we’ve said goodbyes and we’ve had lots of fun in between.

The ground is no longer a mud pit but a safe area to play with sand l...

If I could use an image to explain what is to be volunteer, I would say that it's to give one thousand and receive one billion. Whatever your talent or the skills you have, we all can be useful and help, it doesn't matter the type of volunteering you chose.

But I h...