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SC International Office 101SE 2 nd Place Suite 201 B Gainesville, FL 32601 United States usoffice@sustainablecambodia.org www.sustainablecambodia.org August 2013 YouthLinc Team Makes a Great Change in Rural Cambodia, 2013!

1 SC International Office 101SE 2 nd Place Suite 201 B Gainesville, FL United States usoffice@sustainablecambodia.org August 2013 YouthLinc Team Makes a Great Change in Rural Cambodia, 2013! Dear Supporters, Supporters like you and Rotarians from around the world are working through Sustainable Cambodia and Sustainable Cambodia Australia to help village families continually improve their quality of life with healthy water, nutritious food, health care, education, and sustainable income generation. With your help, more than 330 wells are providing safe water, more than 4,500 students are currently enrolled in Sustainable Cambodia schools, and nearly 34,000 Cambodians have been able to change their lives for the better. None of this would be happening without supporters like you! Children receiving water containers from the YouthLinc Team In this edition of the Sustainable Cambodia Update, you'll hear how Youthlinc, an organization of young people, helped to change the lives of village families. We thank you all for your help with this work. Read below to discover more... To help the children of these families with education: Click here to sponsor a child today! Sustainable Cambodia is a nonprofit organization working to help the residents of Cambodian villages create a sustainable quality of life. We do not simply give aid to the villagers. Instead, we help them build wells, irrigation systems and schools, and train them in agriculture and vocations, empowering and enabling them to create positive and measurable change in their villages. Sustainable Cambodia is registered in Cambodia as an Non-Governmental Organization with the Ministry of Foreign affairs and in the United States as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable organization. TIN# Please visit our website at

Youthlinc Makes a Change in Rural Cambodia YouthLinc Team 2013 Youthlinc is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating lifetime humanitarians by offering students and mentors local and

2 Youthlinc Makes a Change in Rural Cambodia YouthLinc Team 2013 Youthlinc is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating lifetime humanitarians by offering students and mentors local and international service experiences. A Youthlinc team of 36 students and 9 mentors from Utah, in the USA, arrived at Sustainable Cambodia to tackle a major project. The project included almost every program at Sustainable Cambodia from clean water and agriculture, to health, education, and empowerment in the rural villages. Each Youthlinc student and each mentor chose activities to participate in during their 10 day trip to rural Pursat. These included building bio-sand water filters, constructing a library, constructing a volleyball court and a high-jump and a long jump...

4 ...and repairing the school latrine and constructing Rooftop Rainwater Harvesting globes...

5 ...and repainting the school...

6 ...and providing villagers with pass-on animals, agricultural tools, seeds, and first aid supplies...

7 ...and giving study materials and bikes to students whose homes are located far from school......and finally teaching English to children and life-skills to adult learners.

The Youthlinc Team not only donated their money, clothes, medicine, and supplies, but more importantly they shared a piece of their hearts with the children and families.

8 The Youthlinc Team not only donated their money, clothes, medicine, and supplies, but more importantly they shared a piece of their hearts with the children and families. And upon returning home, some of them have individually sponsored a child. Thanks to the Youthlinc Team for making this project happen! It is transformational for the rural villagers and children you have touched. Many thanks to all of our supporters! Thanks to Supporters! Special thanks to Sustainable Cambodia Australia, to TC Swartz and Starquest Expeditions, to Barclay Bank, to Rotary and Rotarians throughout the world, and to our wonderful child sponsors and University Scholarship Sponsors from all over the world. Without all of you, none of this would be possible! Sustainable Cambodia (SC) is an internationally supported grass-roots not-for-profit organization, led by dedicated Cambodian staff with help from international volunteers, and with support from child sponsors and Rotary Clubs from all over the world. SC works with rural Cambodian villages to help them achieve sustainability and self-sufficiency. Sustainable Cambodia was co-founded by Rotarians, and active Rotarians make up a majority of Sustainable Cambodia's governing Board of Directors. SC aligns its values with those of Rotary International, including RI's ideals of empowerment, peace through understanding, world service and community service. We apply Rotary's effective "Four-Way Test" to ethical issues. Our model is unique in several ways: Only native Cambodians are employed as paid staff, and all international officers, directors and consultants are unpaid volunteers, ensuring that 100% of funding goes directly into the rural village programs. We are an empowerment organization rather than an "Aid" organization. We provide resources, assistance, training and education to the community, empowering families to revitalize their community and economy. Our approach is broad-based, including schooling for children, safe village drinking water, irrigation systems, alternative agriculture, vocational education, micro-business and healthcare. In return for the assistance, each family commits to helping surrounding villages: We not only "teach them how to fish," but teach them to teach others how to fish. While we currently work in central Cambodia, our vision is for this empowerment model to spread across Cambodia, and ultimately to grow into other countries.

A Great Trip to the Temples of Angkor!

SC International Office 101SE 2 nd Place Suite 201 B Gainesville, FL 32601 United States usoffice@sustainablecambodia.org www.sustainablecambodia.org A Great Trip to the Temples of Angkor! May 2013 Dear