From the Field, The PoP Movement »

[15 May 2010 | One Comment | 692 views]
Tell us what you’d like. We won’t be giving it to you.

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.

Global Education, The PoP Movement »

[12 May 2010 | No Comment | 673 views]
Why PoP works at the Local Level

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?

From the Field, The PoP Movement »

[11 May 2010 | One Comment | 630 views]
Fifteen Reasons Why I Miss Laos, pt. 3

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.

From the Field, The PoP Movement »

[10 May 2010 | No Comment | 467 views]
Fifteen Reasons Why I Miss Laos, pt. 2

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.

From the Field »

[7 May 2010 | No Comment | 483 views]
Fifteen Reasons Why I Miss Laos

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.