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The Faribault Rotary Club's Global Project Team has been busy doing presentations to other Rotary and service clubs throughout Minnesota. We've presented to Owatonna's Sunrise Rotary club and Lions Club. The Global Project Team also received $4,500 from Rotary Shark tank and on Friday presented our grant submission to the Rotary Foundation. So far we've raised close to $15,000 from pledge support, and small donations. Our goal is to raise $30,000 on top of grant awards. Thank you so much for everyone's support. If you would like to hear of our project in Cambodia, please message us on Facebook or email one of our team members, Natalie Ginter, David Sauer, Dr. Dick Huston or Sam Ouk. You can reach Sam at samouk01@gmail.com.
Interesting Fact about Cambodia:
After the "Khmer Rouge" communist guerrilla army won the Cambodian Civil War in 1975, a period known as The Killing Fields took over Cambodia. For 4 years, between 1.7 to 2.5 million Cambodians were systematically killed off through hard labor and targeted murders of the most educated people in the country.
As terrible as this nightmare was, the theme of hope, heroism, and the power of the human spirit did not burn out of those who survived the Killing Field as the the Khmer rouge intended. In fact, the opposite thing happened and the world got to witness the amazing resilience and courage of the Cambodian people. The documentary below tells of one man's journey from escaping genocide in Cambodia to becoming the Donut King of California.
