Tag: community development

Hands of Honor: Where Everyone Learns Your Name

February 8, 2016

This article was originally published on the Alliance website. According to the International Labour Organization, sub-Saharan Africa has the world’s highest incidence of child labor (59 million—more than 21 percent of the region’s children). In West Africa hard manual labor is part of daily life. Most city families hire a domestic worker, often a young girl […]

The CAMA Chair

October 19, 2015

Today’s post is written by Adriaan Overbeeke. The chair is no longer white—it’s more of a dull gray, dingy white. On the back of the chair, in Khmer and English, are the blue letters “CAMA.” I found myself wondering how many people had sat in that chair as part of the ministry established in Poipet, […]

Peace with Love through Soccer

September 14, 2015

The following was sent by Buzz Maxey, a CAMA worker in Papua, Indonesia. “We played 39 soccer games, hosted 15 coaching sessions and tournaments for kids, gave 14 AIDS awareness presentations, and experienced 3 days of peace training together. The best part about it was that people from diverse cultures, races, and religions all came […]

CAMA Laos Partner Receives Ramon Magsaysay Award

September 7, 2015

Throughout our history, CAMA has had the privilege to work with some very dedicated and self-sacrificing local partners. Today, we would like to honor one of those partners: Mrs. Kommaly Chanthavong from Laos. Kommaly was recently awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for “her fearless, indomitable spirit to revive and develop the ancient Laotian art of […]

A Call to Prayer for Papua

September 3, 2015

The following was sent by a CAMA worker in Papua, Indonesia. We’ve recently returned to Papua from our year-long home assignment in the US, and we’re being hit hard again by the number of people who are dying here each day. In the last few days, there have been three funerals in our neighborhood. Today […]