Friends, Partners & Participants
PEPY Friends In Japan
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PEPY sends a big shoutout to our friend and supporter Daniel Gallimore, who joined us on both December's Rural Experiential Tour and March's Northern Cambodia Cycling Adventure. During a recent Half-Fast (a Japanese cycling association) meeting, Daniel shared reflections on his experiences riding and volunteering with PEPY in Cambodia. He was quoted in the local Daily Yomiuri, and you can read his comments here.
Employee Spotlight on Véronique Smith
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Past PEPY rider Véronique Smith was recently featured in Corporate Communications' Employee Spotlight. Based in San Diego, Véronique joined PEPY on February's Southern Cambodia Cycling Trip, on which she braved 400 km of dusty roads on the way to an entirely new perspective on life. One bike trip with well-traveled Véronique is enough for us to agree that "staying still has never been in Véronique's nature" - we wish her the best and congratulations on a well-deserved acknowledgment!
This piece was originally published in the April 24, 2008 edition of Corporate Communications.
Employee Spotlight: Véronique Smith
by Evan Reineking, Writer, Corporate Communications
Weaving through the streets of Phnom Penh on the back of a speeding motorcycle, Véronique Smith immediately knew she was a going to have the experience of a lifetime. That was an understatement. Before she knew it, the San Diego-based recruiting consultant was cycling down Cambodia's red dirt roads, immersed in the rich countryside of an amazingly exotic, interesting and challenging new land.
But Véronique did not come all this way to sightsee. She and a team of cyclists from Protect the Earth, Protect Yourself (PEPY) embarked on a 400-kilometer journey through Cambodia's rural villages to promote recycling and environmental care. PEPY's adventure tourism combines fun events with activities that make a difference to the country's remote communities.
PEPY Blurb Books
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PEPY has just completed four snazzy new photo-books, one showcasing the development of our organization over the past couple of years, and three highlighting our most recent tours. All of the photos were taken by our participants and volunteers.
Click on the badges below to see previews of the books and order a copy today to share with your friends and family!
RDI: A Comprehensive Approach to Development
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by Michael Woodard
In our January newsletter, we introduced Mickey Sampson, the founder and country director of Resource Development International, and his organization’s dedication to sustainable development in Cambodia. In the previous article, we featured RDI’s practical yet thoroughly impressive innovations that improve access to clean water in Cambodia. However, RDI’s reach extends much further than water quality projects, ranging from animal husbandry to simple latrine systems to soap making. All of RDI’s projects work together to improve health, education, and economic opportunities for Cambodians. In the February edition, we highlighted these projects as well as RDI’s commitment to education.
Choeng Ek / The Killing Fields
The PEPY Team Journal
The following article was written by PEPY intern Mandy Gatewood.
Today I went on a long bike ride to Choeng Ek, the Killing Fields. The ride was a really good one, through small communities on bumpy dirt roads, rice fields being harvested on either side of the road, water buffalo staring stupidly at me as I putter by, the Children's Auxiliary of the Hello Mafia jumping out to pepper me with "Hello!"s and "How are you!"s. I stopped to 'chat' with some Khmer kids who crawled out from under a wall with a plastic bag full of fish and a long bamboo pole -- they'd been fishing for lunch, looked like. They were covered in smears of white mud and were barefoot and shirtless. Maybe 8 yrs. old. They asked for some water and I gave it to them. They tried to take my bottle, so I pantomimed that they could have a few drinks (tip up the imaginary bottle, say, "Glug glug glug") but then I wanted it back. They gave it back. I took their picture and showed them. They liked it. Then they started asking me for money. "K'mee-un!" (Don't have.) Bye, kids.
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