This is a guest post from Rebecca Morgan, CSP, CMC
For many of us, our heart is tugged when we hear of impoverished people’s plight. We send money to organizations helping these folks and it relieves our concern somewhat.
Yet some of us decide to do more. We’re drawn to go to the country to visit the organizations and their constituents to see how we can help.
Such is the case with the non-profit on whose board I serve, Together We Can Change the World (www.twcctw.org). Begun in 2010 by two professional speakers, Scott Friedman and Jana Stanfield, TWCCTW focuses on seven Southeast Asian countries. Scott and Jana invited other globally based colleagues to join their visits.
Twice a year we visit some of our projects in Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. We work with groups focused on assisting women and children in improving their education and health.
In Siem Reap, Cambodia, we focus on the Future for Khmer Children (FKC) (http://khmerchild.co) This priva…