Original report from Washington
24 November 2009
A group of Cambodian Americans came together recently to raise money for students in Cambodia.
The Cambodian Education Excellence Foundation raised $7,000 from a Halloween fundraiser in Virginia, Oct. 31, which will go to outstanding students, organizers said.
“When they have education, they have morality, they can help themselves, their families, their friends and their society,” said Kchao Samrang, the foundation’s board chairman. “We celebrated this fundraising with two objectives: collecting money to help economically disadvantaged, but academically outstanding, students in Cambodia, and, being overseas Khmers, we must know what we should do to help Khmers in the country. I think if we start from a small group, we will be able to help more in the future.”
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