Tag: community development

The Good Developer: An Intern’s Perspective

May 9, 2016

Today’s post is written by Matthew Albright, an Envision intern with CAMA working at the Jɛgɛ Ɲuman fish farm. The project provides locals with tools to increase agricultural yields through innovative, sustainable farming methods. Matthew set out in May 2015 and is about to finish his one-year internship. My time here has been anything but expected. I came into […]

Five Countries, Five Water Projects

March 21, 2016

Today there are still 650 million people, or one in ten people, without safe water to drink.* World Water Day on March 22 brings awareness to this need, yet solutions aren’t easy. Each country, each community face their own unique difficulties. For this reason, our workers take part in water projects distinct to their communities. Here […]

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 […]