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This video pretty much sums it up.

The following article was published in the January 2008 PEPY Newsletter
by Mandy Gatewood

“The growth in population is very much bound up with poverty, and in turn poverty plunders the earth. When human groups are dying of hunger, they eat everything: grass, insects, everything. They cut down the trees, they leave the land dry and bare. All other concerns vanish. That’s why in the next thirty years the problems we call… Continue

This article was published in the January 2008 PEPY Newsletter.

written by Michael Woodard

“We as people, even though it may seem insignificant, need to start taking small steps towards change. Everyday we should be doing something that means something, because if everybody does a little something then the whole begins to shift.”

It is simple truths like this from Mickey Sampson, the founder of Rural Development International,… Continue

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lyrics by PEPY Participants, Julia Cullinan (9) and Maria Anthony (10)

i'm dreaming of a Cambodian Christmas
not like the other ones i've known
where the tonle sap glistens
and children listen
to hear the million roosters crow

i'm dreaming of a Cambodian Christmas
with all the tuk-tuks on the street
with pigs on motos
and polaroid photos
and horns honking all the time


i'm dreaming of a Cambodian Christmas
with floatin… Continue