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		<title>Solar at Knar~!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last of three solar projects was accomplished in February at Knar School. A total of six 90watt panels were installed along with the inverter and batteries. Electrical wiring was run to the kitchen, the office, the storage room and two class rooms where English classes are held in the evenings. Gone are the unsafe and troublesome car batteries.
Thanks to everyone who made this project possible. Now we&#8217;ll actually have some light to teach by and somewhere to plug in things like CD players and projectors. Next up, computers~!
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		<link>http://theplf.org/wp/2012/02/solar-at-knar/</link>
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		<title>Field Trips and Excursions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A valuable part of any student&#8217;s school experience is an old-fashioned field trip. Around here, there are plenty of amazing things for children to see and learn about, from the ancient wonders of Angkor Wat, to natural wonders such as Phnom Kulen, all the way down to being dumbstruck by sliding glass doors at the Lucky Mall. Our students are no different from any other anywhere in the world;  inquisitive by nature and always ready to get away from their desks for a day.
Students are always happy to see high ...]]></description>
		<link>http://theplf.org/wp/2012/02/excursions/</link>
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		<title>Solar Projects Completed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are very happy to report that the solar projects at both the dorm at Srayang and the school at Koh Ker are complete. Four 135w panels were deployed at Srayang and a complete electrical system was wired in; 100 meters of trenches were dug and lines buried, delivering electricity to both girls and boys houses as well as the housemother&#8217;s house, both latrines, the new kitchen and classroom and the front gate. We failed to electrify the chicken coop, but maybe next time. 
The availability of electricity means many ...]]></description>
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		<title>First Computers Deployed at Srayang</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Farida Mot, Field Director
Last week PLF crew spent three days at Srayang Dorm and brought with us the first computers that the students there have ever seen.

Srayang Dormitory Students
This is the first time that the students at Srayang Dorm start to learn how to use the laptop. Those laptop were bring from Tchey Computer Lab. They&#8217;re start to learn and how to charge the laptop with how to plug in the new solar energy and starting with the program also.
Those laptop have been in use at Tchey school since 2008. ...]]></description>
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		<title>New Footbridge at Koh Ker Village</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve just completed a new footbridge at Koh Ker Village. When I say &#8220;We&#8221;, I mean the villagers at Koh Ker built it, with materials supplied by PLF with help from Destination Earth. Early supporters of Koh Ker School will remember in the beginning, there were just a couple of fallen trees over the ravine that harbors a raging torrent in the rainy season. A few years ago we built a small footbridge to make the crossing safer, but without buried posts, the bridge itself was slowly washing away and ...]]></description>
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		<title>Traveling Teacher visits Tchey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tchey School has been running the computer program for 3-1/2 years now and the earliest students from that project are now assistant teachers at the lab. There is one class of advanced students; they are in grades 10-12 and return each saturday and sunday to study in the lab. Yes, they are the geeks.
Recently Diana Gross, the &#8220;Traveling Teacher&#8221; came to work with this class on storyboarding and videography. The crowning achievement of the week was a video by Soy Sen and his team highlighting the problem of a lack ...]]></description>
		<link>http://theplf.org/wp/2012/02/diana/</link>
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		<title>News~!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve had a flurry of activity since school started. Here are some highlights!
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		<title>Ponheary wows UNESCO audience in Jakarta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ponheary Ly spoke before 400 delegates from over 20 countries at the 15th Annual UNESCO APEID Conference in Jakarta Indonesia. Here is Ponheary&#8217;s report on the big adventure and a link to the speech on youtube.By Ponheary Ly
&#8220;When I got the invitation from UNESCO to be a speaker, I was very excited, because I never thought that I could be recognized by so big organization especially this is the international conference.
I was panic, because I felt I didn’t have enough knowledge. But in the end I could do it with ...]]></description>
		<link>http://theplf.org/wp/2011/12/unesco/</link>
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		<title>A Very Wet Opening Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The October monsoon season was a record breaker with 3 major floods occurring in Siem Reap in as many weeks. For 5 weeks the city and surrounding area were under a meter of water and the PLF team was challenged greatly by the logistics on how to deliver supplies and uniforms to 2500 students, make as many lunches and deliver bikes, prizes and backpacks.
Normally opening day of school occurs the first week of October. This year, it took until November 7 to get the job done, with Wat Bo School ...]]></description>
		<link>http://theplf.org/wp/2011/11/opening_day_2011/</link>
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		<title>PLF Expands to Canada!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are thrilled to announce that the Ponheary Ly Foundation Canada is up and running as a registered Canadian charity.  We now have two organizations raising funds for Ponheary’s projects with one common team on the ground pulling it all together.
Over the years we&#8217;ve had many Canadian supporters who will be happy to know they can now receive tax receipts for the full amount of any donation to Ponheary Ly Foundation Canada. Details for making donations to the PLFC can be found at PLF Canada.
PLFC&#8217;s first big project was to ...]]></description>
		<link>http://theplf.org/wp/2011/10/plf-expands-to-canada/</link>
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