Jamie Amelio, Founder and CEO of Caring for Cambodia, during her talk on Tuesday.Published: Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Picture this: You are an American expatriate residing in Singapore and visiting Cambodia. You are visiting 12th century temples when a small girl asks you for a dollar so that she may go to school.
Jamie Amelio, founder and CEO of Caring for Cambodia and one of several spokespersons for 40 Years of Women at Lehigh, experienced just that.
“Something had happened to me that day,” she said on Tuesday during a lecture at Sinclair Auditorium.
Amelio knew after her first encounter at the temple that Cambodia was in desperate need of an educational system. But it needed a functional system as well as a sustainable one.
CFC is a nonprofit and nongovernmental organization that was founded in 2003 with the goal of creating a better future for Cambodian children through the pursuit of a quality education. The organization seeks to accomplish this by building schools, training teachers and providing what a child needs to thrive, including food and clean water.
One of the reasons that CFC has been so successful is because it trains teachers to train other teachers. Read the full article here.
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