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Food, Blankets and Shelter—Only Basic Needs?

Let’s just go ahead and state the obvious—it is much easier for an NGO to market basic needs programs than it is to market programs directed at resolving more complicated issues. Because the more complicated issues (for...

Red scars and reconstruction: A life in the day of Samithy Chhom, survivor of the Khmer Rouge

Samithy Chhom was growing up a ward of the Royal Household when Phnom Penh fell to the armed forces of the Khmer Rouge. The year was 1975, and the capture of the capital saw the culmination of Pol Pot’s seven year nationwide ...

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Food, Blankets and Shelter—Only Basic Needs?

Red scars and reconstruction: A life in the day of Samithy Chhom, survivor of the Khmer Rouge

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