What do a game show, discussing pilots in taxis, and shooting arrows at a target 50 metres away have in common? How about playing charades or racing while carrying a ball with chopsticks? The answer – our weeklong annual staff retreat in Siem Reap. Teacher Sophen and Boumy act as tigers in a game of …
Mike Walton is a semi-retired educator from the UK, 20 years a teacher followed by 20 years a headteacher in both the UK and Thailand. He has been a board member of many international educational organisations, including being Chair of The Federation of British International Schools in Asia. Earlier this year he took up the …
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Jen (left) mentoring two changemakers, Sambor (centre) and Dyna (right) after class finished in a school in Battambang Jen McCredie is a semi-retired teacher from Australia. Her teaching career in Australia has seen her wear many hats in primary schools, from classroom teacher to teaching and learning consultant in mathematics, to Assistant Principal of a …
Our Siem Reap and Battambang Offices together- with our mission, vision and values on display. ‘I feel stronger when everyone joins together’ sums up our week-long Organisational Review perfectly. After a week of discussions, collaboration and feedback from all of our staff in Cambodia, our strengths and weaknesses as an organisation are much clearer. The …
Now Linda Horgan, our UK Senior Partnerships Manager has safely returned to the UK, she reflects on her time in Cambodia- with a much clearer understanding of the projects and the need for the work done on the ground in Cambodia. “I walked out the door of my home in Oxford at 1am on Sunday …
Last week, we were delighted to have Roy Ryna, one of the few female primary school principals in Cambodia, share knowledge and experience in the Women in Leadership Talk for Changemakers. Ryna discussed her journey to becoming a principal, the challenges she had to overcome and offered words of encouragement and inspiration to motivate our …
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Early in December, twenty staff members from SeeBeyondBorders Cambodia and five Changemakers gathered in Battambang for the annual program review led by Operations Manager, Blung Phath. CEO, Edward Shuttleworth, joined online to welcome everyone and thank staff for their hard work and achievements. “Today is a great day. All the team have come together to …
Our 2020, like so much of the world, has been severely impacted by COVID-19. In Cambodia, it is hard to remember life pre-pandemic. So much has changed. Fortunately, Cambodia has had very limited numbers of COVID-19 cases with very tight entry restrictions and the borders almost completely closed. But the tourism industry, so important for …
SeeBeyondBorders have begun recruiting for ambitious female Cambodian graduates to partake in our inaugural Educational Changemaker graduate programme. Set to begin in early 2021, the Educational Changemaker programme has been developed to create opportunity for Cambodian women to influence change in the education sector in Cambodia. The programme will employ passionate Cambodians with an undergraduate …
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SeeBeyondCOVID-19 has become the focus for us all in one way or another. Beyond the hand sanitiser purchases, the working from home, the school closures, and the toilet paper mountains that someone must be climbing as a virtual challenge in their bathrooms, how do we spend our time in isolation to get ready to resume …