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A New Learning Center is now opened in Battambang, Cambodia

A  new Learning Center is now opened in Cambodia I have a great news to share with my friends. Very recently, my family visited a small village in Battambang province in Cambodia where my daughter Natascha officially opened a Learning Center built by the Hope is Life Foundation. We were so glad to see more than 100 children in the village who will now have access to some form of education. The villagers, the Chief District Officer, Head of the District Education Department, the Head of Village Council village children and many of our friends attended the opening ceremony. It was a proud moment to all of us. The school is now officially opened.  Village children waiting for the guests arrival Visitors and children posed for  group picture during the opening ceremony After enduring nearly three decades of brutal warfare and the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime, Cambodia still remains one of the poorest countries in the world. During Khmer Rouge’s rule, it was estimated nearly