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 [...]

Home of Hope, January 2025   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 [...]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, and hello 2025! Yesterday we returned home from 10 days in Vietnam. 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 [...]

Thanksgiving Weekend Adventures Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy Dray Season!  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 [...]

Hello from Cambodia!  I feel like November marks the beginning of the holiday season. I promise, I’m not playing Christmas music yet, but somehow just seeing “November” on the calendar makes me  feel festive!  We moved to Cambodia in January 2023 to develop the Water Project for WBS (Warm Blankets Switzerland). As most of you [...]

Dear friends and family, October is here, and I’m imagining you with a cozy  sweater, a mug of tea and maybe a fire burning in the background. Ahhh that sounds so nice. Even though it’s rainy season here, it’s still 32 C (89.5 F), Benjamin and the neighbour kids are playing legos in front of [...]

  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 adults have left for the cities to try [...]

Hello,  This newsletter is a bit late because we just arrived home from Thailand. Yahoo for holidays! More on that in a bit. 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 [...]

Hello family and friends, To all of my US readers, happy 4th of July week! This is one of my favourite holidays, it’s like Thanksgiving in the summer. Instead of roasting turkey and playing board games, we  barbecue chicken and play yard games, go camping, and set off fireworks. It’s time together with family and [...]

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 heat [...]