Hello dear friends and family, This year we’re doing a lot of traveling. In the last two years of being in Cambodia we’ve only made short trips to Thailand and Vietnam, but no visits home. This year we’re visiting Switzerland and the USA. Benjamin is currently attending preschool four mornings a week, and we purposefully [...]
Hello friends and family, I’m still a little jet lagged as I write this update, but it feels good to be “home” in Cambodia. Benjamin is building a fort in the garden with one of the neighbour children and I’m sitting under a fan and sipping on a cup of locally grown coffee. We were in [...]
As I wrote last month, Lukas made a quick trip to Switzerland for our friend’s funeral. It was a sad trip to make, but it was also healthy and Lukas is glad that he could be there to honer Deif’s life. There were more than 300 people at the memorial service, a real testament to [...]
Dear friends and family, How was your month? We love getting feedback from you when you have time to send it. This month we want to share a bit about our dear friend Deif Baumgartner. His sudden and unexpected death on February 21st from a heart attack has caused us to reflect on the life [...]
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 [...]
