 |
Cambodia's Journey of Hope |
|
Cambodia's Journey of Hope |
Most of these links will take you far away from this website, many to Cambodia itself. These web visits will be "framed" within this space you are now viewing, with our link list remaining available in the left frame. At our discretion, we let certain sites "take over" the entire screen of your browser or launch a new browser window.
The framing of these sites within our own is NOT intended to "trap" you, but rather to give you a home base from which to browse. If you want to know a bit about a site before clicking, and then let it fill your screen, stay on THIS page and you'll find the same links with short descriptions. Any link you click from THIS page will give you a full-screen view of that website.
YatesWeb Links Andy Brouwer Links
USA-Based
Catholic Relief Services
Don Bosco
Jesuit Relief Services - Cambodia
Maryknoll - Cambodia
Multimedia:
More Catholic-Cambodia Connections:
LOCAL MEDIA:
NEWSPAPER Online editions, archives and features:
CAMBODIA ONLINE
Cambodia NGO Lists:
Catholic NGO's:
The well-maintained CRS site has this special section about their work in Cambodia. CRS, regarded as perhaps THE most ethical of U.S.-based charities, also has a secure donation site which allows you to target your gift to work in Cambodia (or other countries or relief projects of your choice. A link to the secure contributions form is provided at the bottom of this page.
Technical Schools
The Salesians have an outstanding hands-on ministry with two technical schools in Cambodia, teaching practical trades to young people victimized by the wars.
JRS works in quite a number of struggling regions and countries and provides a fine summary here of their current projects in Cambodia. The above link takes you to the Cambodia section of the main JRS website. However, the Jesuit community in Cambodia is developing its own internet presence as "Jesuit Services - Cambodia" signalling the long-term JRS commitment to work in Cambodia. The following new website is most informative:
Jesuit Services - Cambodia
This page for Maryknoll mission in Cambodia is maintained on this website as a service of "Parish Without Borders" and includes links to the official Maryknoll site. Like the other U.S.-based outreaches in this group, Maryknoll works in many countries around the globe. The Maryknoll organization provides creative opportunities for letting parishes or individual people become a part of their mission tradition.
Maryknoll Video
"The Field Afar"
As you may know, "The Field Afar" is an excellent Maryknoll video series covering many different countries. This link lets you view the entire half-hour program on Cambodia, guided by Fr. John Barth. Currently Fr. John and Fr. Charlie Dittmeier rent rooms in the same traditional Cambodian house in Phnom Penh. To see this video, you need to have "RealPlayer" installed on your computer. It's free, and information is available at the link listed above.
Fundamental Cambodia Background:
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED . . .
Untangling Cambodia's History
This 5-chapter online book by Bruce Sharp is very compelling reading. As its title implies, the complicated history of Cambodia is expertly untangled. A must-read!
An excellent website by the author of the above-mentioned book, with good background on Cambodia and the neighboring countries.
NOW, LET'S VISIT CAMBODIA!
Fr. Charlie, priest of the Archdiocese of Louisville, arrived in Cambodia in February 2000 after twelve years of ministry in Hong Kong as a Maryknoll Associate, working with the Hong Kong Catholic Deaf community. With insightful writing and plenty of photos, he offers new glimpses at the REAL Cambodia just about every single day. His website is hosted on our server as part of the ministry of "Parish Without Borders."
Website of the country's international broadcasting organization.
The following sites are promotional and "commercial" in that they each try to put the best possible face on Cambodia as a place for investment, tourism and popular culture.
NOTABLE PROJECTS
This school-construction project is well underway, led by a California journalist-philanthropist in cooperation with the government and various NGO's.
A project of "Friends Without A Border."
This U.S.-based site focuses especially on Cambodian artists who survived the purging of all culture carried out by the Khmer Rouge. Very moving art and personal stories.
This carefully-focused project aims to prepare children in the “reconciliation” areas now out from under the Khmer Rouge to re-join the mainstream of national education and thus of national society. The project will attempt to re-establish the Rights of the Child not through preaching about Child Rights, but through teaching and empowering children to have the proficiencies to practice these Rights.
U.S. BASED
PRIVATE or FAMILY
RELIEF PROJECTS
A Rhode Island Catholic family enlists the help of their whole local ecumenical community in their project of making improvements at various orphanages in Cambodia. A good model for what a parish might do.
The efforts of one English teacher to improve the lot of one village.
RESEARCH & HISTORY
Alnog with the Yale university site referenced above, this website is perhaps the most frequently-linked internet source of factual and very graphic information about what really happened in Cambodia under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge organization.
The United Nations has numerous different agencies and NGO's operating in Cambodia. This is only one of numerous possible UN links. Much UN online material is highly statistical or visionary, but in good ways.
Dith Pran is the real person featured in the movie "The Killing Fields."
The Cambodia Development Resource Institute was established in July 1990 as an independent Cambodian institute working to support capacity development within selected government and civil society institutions.
In all its activities, the Cambodia Development Resource Institute acts from a basic respect for local capacity, emphasising the importance of building on existing experience, working in partnership with local institutions in planning and implementing activities to ensure that they respond to real needs
OTHER SELECTED
INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES
KHMER CULTURE
ANOTATED Link Collections
SECURE ONLINE DONATIONS
