សាឡាក់ | Snake Fruit

Snake Fruit, or Salak, is a species of palm tree native to the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. It’s a seasonal fruit that can be found at local markets here in Cambodia but isn’t as common as other seasonal fruits like Mangosteen, Rambutan, or Longan. The outer skin of the fruit is where…

Update from Charlotte

Hello everyone. I’ve been living in Cambodia for a long time now. Three of my favorite things about living in Cambodia are… 1.the food 2.the trees 3. the Apsara dancing and outfits. I really like to go to Kep because that is where the beach is!!!!! The hardest part of living in Cambodia is COVID!!!!…

No more Cambodian stamps, for now.

When I was a child I remember the excitement of receiving postcards and letters from my Uncle Daniel who lived in Europe with foreign and exotic stamps. These simple little reminders that the world was vast broadened my world view and, besides that, they were really interesting. I never got into stamp collecting like my…

Charlotte Fruit Shopping

Charlotte’s newest household responsibility is to do the fruit shopping while I get the vegetables and meat at our local grocery shop. She loves guava.

COVID-19 Food Relief with Mission Dove

In June, MCC provided humanitarian relief funding to one of our local partners, Mission Dove, “to assist 160 economically depressed families that have lost income and employment in communities where DOVE has a presence by providing them with nutritional food packages so they can survive the aftermath of the recent COVID spike and lowdown.” Mission…

2021 Traditional Khmer Photoshoot

It’s becoming a tradition for us to join the ‘GSL’ team for a photoshoot in traditional Khmer clothing. GSL stands for Global Service Learning; it’s the department that our YAMEN and SALT exchange program fits under. Simeon Ndagijimana (YAMEN participant from Rwanda), Clivia Avila (Connecting Peoples Coordinator from Honduras), and Andrew Neufeld (SALT participant from…

COVID-19: Myanmar Update

The situation in Myanmar is very sad and desperate. We had calls with our partners there last week and wanted to share their updates (with all identifying information removed). • People are dying everyday from COVID and numbers of cases and deaths are increasing at a rapid pace. (One partner Director) said that it is…

July Staycation

We had been hoping to take a vacation over schoolbreak (especially since school has been online and these girls are antsy to get out of the house). I wanted to go back to Angkor Wat while we could visit without hordes of tourists and the rest of the family wanted to go to the beach….

COVID-19: July 2021 Update

Like Thailand and Vietnam, Cambodia was fortunate during the first year of the pandemic but is now facing the kind of spread that was seen in most other countries. The daily cases have become stuck around 800 -1000 since July 1st, which may not sound like much, but considering we were having around 30 –…

Catherine wins Catan

Catherine is starting to legitimately win when playing board games. And she loves it. (So do I.) The first game that she surprised us by winning without any outside aid or anyone holding back was Ticket to Ride First Journey. But she’s now graduated to winning Settlers of Catan. On a sidenote: we’ve been thinking…