People for Care and Learning Newsletter                                                June 11, 2009 
 
Fred GarmonDear PCL Friends & Partners:
 
We have a busy summer ahead of us and wanted you to be a part.  Check out the upcoming trips and opportunities to get involved this summer. 
 
Remember me as I travel today to Ethiopia and Germany providing leadership training. And upon my return I hope to see some of you in Indianapolis on the 24th-26th. 
        Blessings to you and your family!           
Fred Garmon, Director PCL
 
 
1.  Lee University Missions Interns
2.  Daystar TV Documentary / Lee Univ Business Team
3.  Mt.Paran Christian School 
4.  German Ensemble Team
5.  U.S. Team
6.  Youth Camp

Lee University Interns

1. Four Lee University Interns are currently in Cambodia. The students spend 12 weeks participating in the day to day functions of PCL; they teach english, lead kids programs, work in the orphanage and coffee house and participate in vocational training programs. Dr.Jerome Boone will be traveling over in June to evaluate the students and the program.
 
 
Daystar Television
2.  30 Students from Lee University Business Department will be doing an intense weekend of service projects in Siem Reap, Cambodia, June 11-14. This group is spending the summer in Singapore studying International Business under the direction of Guy Deloach. During their weekend, the group will pass out 100 water filters to needy families, facilitate 2 large children's programs and build two homes. 
At the same time, Rachel Lamb, of Daystar Televison Network will be filming a documentary on the weekend and People for Care and Learning's work in Cambodia. Rachel co-hosts the show "Check the Sound" that encourages young people to get involved in changing their world.

Garbage Dump Community
 3.  June 1-12, six students  from Mt. Paran High School be traveling to Cambodia on what will be the 4th visit for this high school.  While there, they will help build a gate at the site of our future training center, help the children at the PCL children's home to plant a garden, & volunteer at several orphanages. 
 
4. July 7th, 8 Seminary Students from Germany will be arriving in Siem Reap. This musical group has traveled and performed all over Europe and we are excited to have them serve in Cambodia.  They will meet a group of 15 Americans (arriving July 13th) to help facilitate
PCL's Third Annual Youth Camp.
After last years successful camp, we have increased the number of Cambodian students to 250 this year.
 We need sponsors for these students. 
The total cost is $35.
Your gift could change a child's life forever! 
  
 

Capitol City Dump Community

 If you've seen the pictures from the award winning movie "Slumdog Millionaire" then you have an idea of the living conditions of the children & families we are helping.
 
In this photo Dr. Garmon (background) discusses the relocation of  families
 
Read what people like you are doing: 
 
Lady from Georgia is donating $100 per month to fund a pastor's home in the poverty reduction community in Cambodia in honor of her deceased pastor.
 
MWOA couple sell peanut brittle since February and raise enough to purchase one of the "poverty reduction" houses for $1,000.
 
Two churches in Ky purchase four "poverty reduction" homes ($4,000) just last weekend.
 
453 people join the cause on facebook and donate $721 to date.

Robertsville Middle School Students of Oak Ridge, TN collect over $2,000 for water filters.
 
German youth pastor personally matched all the funds his youth group raised for water filters. 
 
Human Rights concert held at Lee University raised $336 toward water flters.
 
The elderly couple who cleans PCL-MWOA offices found a "cracked" globe bank in our trash and they took it home and filled it with coins and brought it back to us to help the children who are pictured on our walls! Wow, we never even see them to tell them about our work.
 
A Caterer from South Carolina was traveling in Cambodia and saw the floating clinics with our logos and realized that this was the group he had just catered for at the annual MWOA Rally. He sent a "Thank You" for the work he saw being done.
 
A couple from Maryland are sponsoring one of the students who work at Common Grounds in Cambodia to attend Medical school... all four years!
 
An American from the Heart and Stroke Foundation dropped into Common Grounds coffee shop in Siem Reap and ended up donating CPR equipment and trained the staff in CPR.
 
A Nurse who traveled with the Christmas Team decided to go back and volunteer with our staff for 6 months.
 
Mt. Paran High School Team saw a need for a rope & anchor on our floating clinic at the Tonle Sap Lake this week and donated the $600 to purchase it.
 
A young college student at ETSU heard about the work of PCL and sent a donation through our website.
 
Five new people have signed up this month to become Partners with the work by subscribing to a regular monthly donation at our website.
 
There are so many incredible stories of people like you with big hearts who want to help those less fortunate than themselves.
See how you can help too - become a partner
People for Care and Learning
 
 
 
 
Keep up with me at my blog
Inspiring Hope
 
Check out our Video's on
YouTube
 
Join the Cause at
Facebook 
 
Visit our Website at
People for Care
 
Be a Partner
 
 
 
People for Care and Learning
4235 T. L. Rogers St. NE
Cleveland, TN 37312,  423-478-7071