Hello hello, January is my favourite month in Cambodia. It usually doesn’t rain, and the average daytime temperatures hover around 25-28°C (77-82°F), while nighttime temperatures dip to a comfortable 20-23°C (68-73°F). If only it would stay like this all year long. In the last month I’ve made and effort to collect some “everyday life” video [...]
We decided to celebrate Christmas and Lukas' birthday on the beach in Vietnam! We traveled by bus and taxi which was a bit of an adventure and took about 17 hours each way, but it was worth it. Once we arrived we stayed in a little bungalow right on the beach in a farming and [...]
The rainy season is finally over, and we’ve entered that “sweet spot” of cooler, dry weather, it’s wonderful! Lukas and I were commenting yesterday that we have more energy and feel more productive, and it’s probably due to the wonderful weather! We kicked off our holiday season by celebrating Thanksgiving dinner with a few American [...]
Hello from Cambodia! We moved to Cambodia in January 2023 to develop the Water Project for WBS (Warm Blankets Switzerland). As most of you already know, the aim of the project is: to ensure that needy, orphaned and disadvantaged children have access to safe drinking water. Cambodia continues to develop, but there are still so [...]
Hello friends, This month went by quickly, here are some of our many activities! Our water filter instillation this month was at Garuna Christian School. Garuna Christian School is a ministry that provides free tutoring and extra support classes for very poor children enrolled in the public school. These kinds of support programs are greatly [...]
Hello again, Hard to believe that it’s almost September! we just returned home from an amazing week of partnering with the Swiss NGO, “Seed” (https://www.seedbeginnings.com/). Seed is working in a very remote area of Battambang, Cambodia. This area is suffering under extreme poverty. Many of the middle aged adults have left for the cities to [...]
Hello, July was busy and wonderful! Lukas’ brother and family flew out on July 5th, and our very first team arrived on July 7th. We’ve had a lot of wonderful visitors in the last few years, and some of them helped us with the Water Project, but this was our first official team of volunteer [...]
Hello family and friends, In June we made a trip to the Capital, Warm Blankets Switzerland is now a member of “Swiss Business-NGO-SDC Swiss Partnership in Cambodia” (yes, that’s a very long name). It is a networking platform organized by the Swiss Government (DEZA), Swiss companies and Swiss aid organizations operating in Cambodia. Their aim [...]
Hello friends and family, After last month’s extreme heatwave which resulted in multiple deaths and school closures all throughout SE Asia, the beginning of the rainy season has been especially refreshing! It’s still quite hot, but it’s the normal level of hot for Cambodia in June :-) and we’re so relieved! But the intense [...]
Hello friends and family, Lukas is slowly recovering from his bout with Pneumonia (Lungenentzündung), it knocked him flat for two weeks, and took him four more weeks to recover! Because of his illness, we had to reschedule a trip to install water filters, but when the rescheduled day arrived, he was still too sick to [...]
