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A Runners Quest Comes Full Circle With 10K Raised for Cambodia Students
SIEM REAP, Cambodia - August 2010 --Jane Price first traveled to Siem Reap, Cambodia in 2007 and participated in the Angkor Wat half marathon. On September 5th 2010 Price will run an ultra marathon and has raised over $10,000 for Journeys Within Our Community (JWOC), the organization in Cambodia that she visited back in 2007.
Jane's history with Cambodia started in 2007 when she stayed at Journeys Within B&B and was introduced to Journeys Within Our Community (JWOC), a non-profit organization founded by Journeys Within tour company owners Brandon and Andrea Ross. To help support the organization she sponsored a JWOC Scholarship Student. This JWOC program gives in-need and deserving students a four year university education in Cambodia. The students in return volunteer 5 to 10 hours a week on various JWOC projects, allowing the projects to run and giving the students valuable experience. After corresponding with her student for three years, Jane returned to Cambodia in 2010 and volunteered for a month at JWOC. Upon returning home she signed up for her first ultra marathon which was a 50k run through the Sierra Nevada foothills. As if this goal wasn't big enough, Price decided to fundraise for JWOC and the Scholarship program.
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Two Massachusetts Teens Change Lives of Students in Cambodia
NEWBURYPORT, Mass. August 2010 — Leah Petty and Claire Miller are pretty regular 13-year-olds: They go to school, have fun with their friends, and look forward to summer vacation. But these two teens are no ordinary young women that look forward to hanging out at the beach, the pool, or with friends. These girls look forward to making a difference. Three years ago while living with her family in Singapore, Leah visited Cambodia and was personally impacted by the poverty that she witnessed in this country. Rather than just ignore the problem, Leah talked to her best friend Claire and together they made a plan to raise money for Cambodia and to make a difference in the lives of kids their own age who were struggling just to survive.
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Journeys Within Our Community Announces their May Newsletter Challenge
Siem Reap, Kingdom of Cambodia, May 1, 2009 – With a new website up and running and exciting news coming up in the next couple of months Journeys Within Our Community (JWOC) will be receiving a $1 donation for every newsletter sign up in the month of May.
Founders Brandon and Andrea Ross have challenged the JWOC board to match any newsletter sign up with a $1 donation and the board has readily accepted. In this Newsletter Challenge if 200 people sign up for the newsletter then $200 will be donated by the JWOC board to JWOC. If 2000 people sign up for the newsletter then $2000 will be donated!
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Journeys Within Our Community Celebrates a Month of Milestones
Siem Reap, Kingdom of Cambodia, March 17, 2009 – In March 2009, 19 new students, supported by private donations through Journeys Within Our Community (JWOC), started or were able to continue university in Siem Reap Cambodia. These students were chosen based on need and aptitude and join a program already boasting 45 students attending university in Cambodia and five in Laos. In the same month, JWOC scholarship student Narla Phay graduated from Build Bright University in Cambodia after attending under a JWOC scholarship.
This is a month when the organization sees both its biggest starting class ever and its first graduation, highlighting the strength and potential of this amazing program.
