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Archive for May, 2010|Monthly archive page

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Tell us what you’d like. We won’t be giving it to you.

Written by: Adam Braun May 15th, 2010

One of the first questions we ask is what they want most for their community. We won’t be giving it to them; we’ll be helping them create it for themselves.


Adam, with Country Director Leslie Engle, in a planning meeting with the educators and elders of Xienglohm Village.

Why PoP works at the Local Level

Written by: Adam Braun May 12th, 2010

5 years ago I started backpacking across the globe, and the seeds for what would one day become Pencils of Promise were sown. They came in the form of questions, most specifically What do you want most?


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Fifteen Reasons Why I Miss Laos, pt. 3

Written by: phillip May 11th, 2010

Filmmaker Philip Buiser of Two Penguins Productions spent two weeks in Laos documenting the opening of PoP schools and profiling some remarkable people in Lao culture. Click to read the final installment of a three-post series.


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Fifteen Reasons Why I Miss Laos, pt. 2

Written by: echung May 10th, 2010

Filmmaker Philip Buiser of Two Penguins Productions spent two weeks in Laos documenting the opening of PoP schools and profiling some remarkable people in Lao culture. Click to read the second installment of a three-post series.


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Fifteen Reasons Why I Miss Laos

Written by: phillip May 7th, 2010

Filmmaker Philip Buiser of Two Penguins Productions spent two weeks in Laos documenting the opening of PoP schools and profiling some remarkable people in Lao culture.


Brad with "Monster," one of the first students at the Phatheung pre-school in Laos

PoP Profile: Brad Haugen

Written by: echung May 5th, 2010

This week meet PoP Director of Marketing and Branding, Brad Haugen, who says “I hope everyone who reads this realizes that no matter who you are, what your age is or how much money you have, you can truly have an impact on this world. It just takes heart.”


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