News Flashes

On February 2, 2012, a 6-minute segment about Harpswell appeared on the local Fox News channel in Memphis Tennessee, produced and narrated by Fox News anchor Mearl Puris, who just came back from a one-week visit to Cambodia and Harpswell. To see this television news segment, CLICK HERE!

On January 15, 2012, nearly one hundred of the parents of our students came from all over Cambodia to visit our Dormitory and Leadership Center for Women. One representative from each class gave a short speech, then we had a demonstration of our Cambodia Daily discussions, which analyze articles about national and international news and develop critical thinking. Our ceremony began with an Apsara dance by our own students. For more photos and information, go to Events

On January 22, 2012, a group of outstanding women leaders, together with Rabbi Micah Greenstein, all from Memphis, Tennessee, visited the Harpswell Foundation and discussed their lives and accomplishments with our students. The women included Rebecca Wilson, who founded Bridge Builders, which is a leadership program for young people; Barbara Hyde, who is one of the founders of the Women's Foundation, which works to help develop women's leadership, and who is also director of the J.R. Hyde Sr. Foundation, which works to give education to children in Memphis and to strengthen the neighborhoods of Memphis; Barbara Holden Nixon, who was Executive Director of the Children's Community Service Agency in Memphis and is now a member of the Urban Child Institute in Memphis; Mearl Purvis, who is a leading broadcast journalist; Margaret Craddock who was Executive Director of the Metropolitan Interfaith Association, which is an organization that brings different religious groups together to help both older people and young people in the community; and Rabbi Micah Greenstein, the senior rabbi of Temple Israel in Memphis, the largest Jewish community in Memphis, and a major force for bringing together people of different religions to improve their communities. Rabbi Greenstein also spoke at Harpswell in January 2011, in our Interfaith Assembly on Spirituality. For more photos and information, go to Events

To see a new, 3-minute video in which one of our 2011 graduates tells her life story, how she grew up in a small hut with no electricity or plumbing and faced a life of farming and being married off at age 15, CLICK HERE!

In December, 2011, our five Harpswell students with post-graduate fellowships in the U.S. this year visited the architect Holly Cratsley at her company, Nashawtuc Architects, in Concord Massachusetts. Holly was a design consultant for the building and grounds of the Harpswell Dormitory and Leadership Center for Women in Teuk Thla. Seated in the photo below (left to right) are the 5 Harpswell students, Marady Kith, Leaphea Yang, Kalyan Yim, Menghun Kaing, and Limheang Heng. Holly, standing on the left, is joined standing by her associates.