Education Cambodia Project #28038

Being a Kid Is Their Job

by ABCs and Rice

Project Report | Aug 20, 2018
An Update from ABCS AND RICE!

By Sharon Terada | Board Member, ABCS AND RICE CANADA

Our Mural

Thank you once again for your kind support of this wonderful school which educates and feeds 220 students in Cambodia. We also attend to their medical, dental, and social needs and regularly send food home to their families. We are proud to support several of our former graduates as they pursue post-secondary education, including two who are studying to become doctors.

We had a very busy and successful spring. Every year ABCS and Rice welcomes students from the University of Redlands in California. These 8 eager students helped our teachers plan and run our Sports Day in May. The children had much fun performing sack races, hoop-la, tight rope walking and water balloon catching! There were games and prizes for everyone. The water fight at the end of the day was also very popular!

These Californian students also created a wonderful mural which inspires our students to become whoever they want to be. Thank you Makenna and Becky for designing and helping to paint this masterpiece!

Our supporters in Canada were busy this past spring as well as they hosted a Gala Fundraiser for ABCS and RICE in Sudbury. Tammy Durand Pomroy returned home to host this gala. We sold items that were donated from local citizens and companies as well as goods from Cambodia. Together with our silent auctions and sales, we raised nearly $20 000. ABCS and RICE CANADA raised another few hundred dollars this month while selling used goods and cotton candy at a local fair. We hope to run monthly fundraisers this fall and winter as well.

Fundraising is hard work but well worth the effort!

Thanks again for your support and best wishes !

ABCS AND RICE

Painting Our New Mural

What I Want To Be

More Happy Faces

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May 25, 2018
Great News From ABCS AND RICE!

By Sharon Terada | Board Member, ABCS AND RICE CANADA

Feb 28, 2018
Introducing ABCS and RiCE CANADA!

By Sharon Terada | Board Member, ABCS and RICE CANADA

Hard at work!

A few months ago, we wrote to you about the good work and generosity that our dedicated friends from Australia had provided in the fall of 2017. Now we wanted to let you know about our Canadian volunteers!

As you may know, our founding director, Tammy Durand Pomroy, is from the Sudbury region in Ontario, Canada. In 2009, while vacationing in Cambodia, Tammy was struck by the need to provide food and education for the most needy children in Siem Riep. She returned home to Canada, sold all of her belongings and was able to raise enough money for a one way airplane ticket back to Cambodia. With only a few hundred dollars in her pocket and with great effort she was able to erect a hut and she began to teach a few orphans. ABCS and RICE was born!

Her friends and family back home in Canada decided to hold fundraising dinners to help support Tammy’s efforts. These events grew over time. Over the past several years ABCS and RICE CANADA has grown to include a dozen concerned men, women, and students. Several of us have had the privilege to visit ABCS and RICE in Siem Riep Cambodia and we are all so inspired by what Tammy has achieved. Last April 2017 our local Dinner and Silent Auction hosted 135 attendees and raised nearly $24 000 CDN. We were so proud when Tammy was presented with the Sovereigns’ Medal for Volunteers which was awarded from the office of the Governor General of Canada, the Right Honourable David Johnston.

We were also excited a few months ago when ABCS and RICE was featured in the December/January issue of “Our Canada”, a nationally distributed magazine.

We look forward to holding another fundraising dinner this April 2018. Stay tuned for more good news!

Sharon Terada,

Board Member,

ABCS and RICE CANADA

Another great smile!

A few happy and health students

It's time for recess!

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