2011 was a huge year for Skateistan Cambodia and 2012 shows no signs of slowing down.
Over Christmas we lost our short term volunteer James, who spent an intense two months with us in Phnom Penh and now continues his journey in Afghanistan where he joins the Skateistan team in Kabul to complete his assignment. We wish him the best of luck and will miss him lots.
With James' departure, we also welcomed three newcomers to the lineup at Skate HQ Phnom Penh. Chantou Kong, a Cambodian national who recently graduated in Social Work at Royal University of Phnom Penh. Rory Burke, a Californian resident with experience in development projects in diverse sporting fields and Rachel Murawski, also from California, an artist and skateboarder who has taught art in various schools as well as non-profit settings.
All three volunteers bring a different set of tools to the Skateistan kit, and we look forward to seeing how each one of them influences our fast growing organisation in different ways.
Skateistan Cambodia wanted to learn a little more about them, so once they'd settled in a little, we asked a couple of in-depth questions to get right to the point of why they are here and what they expect to gain from the experience...