Richmond Review/Sunset Beacon News

Richmond Author Shares Stories of Growing Up Under a Brutal Regime “In my book, I did not want to focus only on the terror of life under the Khmer Rouge, the starvation, the violence. I wanted to also capture the beauty of the Cambodia I knew as a child; the traditions, the culture and the…

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Chenda Chhi: Khmer Rouge survivor builds schools in rural #Cambodia

I recently met Chenda Chhi the founder of Coral Tree Education Foundation, which does important work to create an educated and compassionate new generation of young #Cambodians. The foundation rebuilds old public schools in rural areas. Their first school, Coral Tree Elementary, is located in Prek Snor village which is 40 miles out of the…

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