Last month we took a team from the Canadian Foodgrains Bank out to visit our Agricultural and Livelihoods project with long term MCC partner Organization To Develop Our Villages. We spent two days visiting ‘old’ farmers who are graduating from the project this year. These farmers were all living below the poverty line and going…
Tag: Prey Veng
Peace Club Explorative Visit Learning Tour
In August 2025, MCC India and MCC Bangladesh made an explorative visit to MCC Cambodia’s Peaceful Education in Rural Primary Schools program in Prey Veng province. This learning tour was intended to promote the mutual exchange of knowledge and to share the results of MCC Cambodia’s efforts to localize the Peace Club curriculum to the…
Peace Clubs and a Bombshell
Last month I traveled to Prey Veng province to sign Peace Club agreements with two new rural Primary Schools. I’ve written about the importance of doing this in person before – our work is about more than tasks, it’s about relationships. Also, when I go to meet the people participating in our projects directly, I…
Harvesting Rice in Prey Veng province
In November 2024, the MCC Cambodia team traveled out to the MCC field office in Prey Veng province to join the team there for some teambuilding and learning activities. This also served as an encouragement visit to the two YAMEN participants placed in the countryside this year. Two members of the team were selected to…
Peace Clubs, Signing Agreements, and a Ministry of Presence
In March, MCC signed an agreement with the Prey Veng Department of Education to facilitate Peace Clubs during Primary School Life Skills classes and train Primary School Teachers on the operation of Peace Clubs. This agreement includes a sustainability plan with the Primary Schools gradually taking on more responsibility for the Peace Clubs and eventually…
ឆាសាច់គោជាមួយអង្រ្កង | Fried Beef with Red Tree Ants
Last week I was in Ba Phnom district for community meetings with the Primary Schools that are part of our Peace Club project and I was lucky enough to be treated to Fried Beef with Red Tree Ants. These are the same kind of ants that I wrote about before but this time they were…
World’s Longest Dragon Boat
In 2018, I was excited to read in a news article that Cambodia had broken the Guinness World Record for the longest Dragon Boat. The Dragon Boat is named កម្ពោជិកបុត្តាខេមរាតរី or Kambojika Putta Khemara Tarei, which means Dragon Boat of Khmer Youth in Cambodian Territory. At 286 feet 5 inches it’s almost as long as…
MCC U.S. Board Learning Tour 2023
In June 2023, the MCC U.S. Board of Directors spent eight days in Cambodia for a Learning Tour. There were 26 visitors in all, including Board members and MCC staff. We were quite a crowd when the MCC Cambodia team met up with them. On Sunday morning, the Learning Tour split up into two groups…
Fresno Pacific University Visit 2023
In July, we hosted a group from Fresno Pacific University in California. Fresno Pacific is a Mennonite Brethren University. The group spent most of it’s time in Vietnam but came through Cambodia for a week and ended with a few days in Thailand. The lead Professor for the group was Dr. Ken Friesen who was…
Chan Trea’s Class on Anger Management
I wanted to share a story of change from our Peaceful Education project. This story came specifically out of the Peace Club pilot and was collected by our MER Coordinator, Mr. Mok. A white shirt with a blue skirt or blue trousers is the sight of six grade students who attend Svay Chor Primary school…