A Story of a Successful Mobile Vendor, CHENDA

“My first day of grocery selling was incredibly difficult. I felt ashamed as buyers laughed at me for using a broken baby bucket to carry my items. I didn’t know what a fair price for my goods should be, but within a week, I managed to figure it out. Soon, I was...

Meet Sreyleab, Han and Minea: At the Dawn of their New Lives

Welcomed into one of Krousar Thmey’s facilities from an early age, Sreyleab, Han and Minea are now preparing to fly on their own wings: all three are among the young graduates with jobs in 2023 that we featured in our last Family Letter. Trained at the Sala Bai...

March 2024 Editorial

Dear friends, Krousar Thmey was invited by the United Nations in Geneva… What an honor! Almost to the day, 33 years ago, I started with a handful of Cambodians in the Site II camp of what would later become the Krousar Thmey organization. With no name, no money,...

Memory and transmission of Khmer classical dance

« If culture dies out, the nation dissolves; if culture thrives, the nation prospers » goes a Cambodian saying. Over the years, the practice and influence of traditional Khmer arts have reflected the country’s periods of progress and crisis. Heritage of an...