I am not scared anymore about spiders, I had so many of them in my room ! We lived together and I prefered to keep them because they kill the mosquitoes. My room was close to the pound so I needed to sleep under a mosquito net otherwise I was being devoured...

Each time a new volunteer arrived, we needed to brief him about how to eat here. The idea is to put plenty of different meals in the middle of the table in order to share them. You first put a lot of white rice in the middle of your plate and it’s polite...

Here, when you give something, you need to give it with your both hands. Otherwise, it’s considered as if you didn't want to give it. So when you are at the market, with plenty of bags of vegetables, you need to put every thing on the ground to give the...

Even if Cambodia is a boudhist country, I was living in a rural city and the respect of the traditions was very strong. I needed to wear long dresses or pants. It was not adviced to show your arms and knees. Because I was living in the middle of the NGO,...

Asian Cartoon Contest 2012 I saw on the french cultural center that a Cartoon contest was organized in SE Asia. Everyone could participate...no limit of age. I directly asked the teachers if they know some good cartoonist among their students. At the...

One day, the staff asked me if I want to teach the time of my stay. I told them that teaching english would be difficult because it’s only a second langage and french would be also difficult because I am not a teacher...they laugh and asked me which day...

The NGO has so many projects to help the villagers to create incomes. These projects are for me totally new and I discovered how works the solidarity in the villages. To share, to divide, to organize for the collectivity. All these worlds were for me...

The kids who are following some courses at SC go to the public school on the morning or afternoon. SC is a kind of extra, a part-time school with a renforcement of 4 subjects : Mathematics, Sciences, Khmer and English. Around 400 students are concerned...

The day after I arrived, I had the opportunity to see the donation of 70 bio sand filters. The farmers and families from the villages around Pursat usually don’t come to the office, it was an opportunity for them to see how work the team of SC and to...

A fter my studies in sociology and 3 years of professional experiences in Social Local Development, I wanted to give my time and my knowledge to a non-profit organisation. I also wanted to discov er a country of South East Asia not only like a tourist....