Archive for January 2010

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I just came back from a very fulfilling two-week bike ride across Cambodia. A group of us participated in the Riding to Break the Cycle: Cambodia 2010 tour with Global Agents for Change in partnership with PEPY to fundraise for the two organizations. On a personal level, this trip was a chance for me to at least have a preview of development work since I had never seen any projects first-hand. I had only read articles of development work and criticisms of the approaches of ...

Check out this video produced by 2009 Europe tour rider to document her unique summer co-op experience with Global AFC!

Hello from Phnom Penh!!!! Here's a real quick blog post and apologies that I couldn't get many up during the trip so far. We've just had such an action packed schedule of visiting various different NGO's and other cultural activities. Can't wait to do more postings when I'm back. It's been a couple hot days of cycling since we've arrived in Siem Reap, but the journey has been epic! As our Global Agents for Change group is smaller, we joined up with a larger group of ...