Author: Arnaldo Pellini

Werde projects in Cambodia 2007 – Green Garden project

12 December 2007
by Arnaldo Pellini
Uncategorised

Werde ry is working together with the local NGO Mlup Baitong since 2003. The Green Garden project is implemented in the province of Kampong Thom to improve the livelihood and living environments through home gardening activities. The project reaches 2073 people in 19 villages. Experienced key farmers trained by a previous project by Werde, are now teaching other farmers about home gardening techniques. After two years of the project implementation many farmers have increased the […]

Werde projects in Cambodia 2007 – Civil Society and Local Governance

11 December 2007
by Arnaldo Pellini
Uncategorised

Dear all, we are close to the end of the year and the fourth year of work for Werde ry in the province of Kampong Thom (Cambodia). In these years we have been implementing two projects in cooperation with Cambodian NGOs. The Civil Society and Local Governance project is implemented with four NGOs partners and has developed a model to organise the participation of citizens with Commune Councils. This is the final year of the […]

Have a Chat!

6 April 2006
by Arnaldo Pellini
Cambodia / Journal and Diary

So what to say? It now three months we are back in Finland after so many years in Cambodia and the real impact of change starts to become more vivid just now. One main difference which is very easy to spot is the silence in public places, the soft noise in the streets where cars run modern engines that are almost noiseless. Then there is the silent and reserved character of the people. This is […]

Tiredness

11 April 2005
by Arnaldo Pellini
Cambodia / Journal and Diary

An Italian journalist who lived for more than twenty years in Asia once wrote that traveling and living abroad makes you tired, it makes you older. After three and half years in Cambodia I start to believe that this is true. I feel a bit tired, though I am not sure I feel older yet. Signs of this tiredness are more evident after a trip to another country, having the opportunity to observe another way […]