{"id":244,"date":"2011-08-30T11:01:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T15:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leeuwebpages.wpengine.com\/alumni\/?p=244"},"modified":"2011-08-30T11:01:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T15:01:18","slug":"alum-abby-fletcher-heading-to-cambodia-in-january-in-her-own-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webpages.leeu.edu\/alumni\/2011\/08\/30\/alum-abby-fletcher-heading-to-cambodia-in-january-in-her-own-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Alum Abby Fletcher heading to Cambodia in January!!  In her own words&#8230;&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cambodia Bound!<br \/>\nThis is my fun announcement. =) <\/p>\n<p>In January, I plan to move to Cambodia for approximately 2 years. I&#8217;m.pumped!!!!!!!! <\/p>\n<p>I have so many thoughts swirling around in my head that I&#8217;m glad to start blogging about it all. It&#8217;s going to take time to get it all out. <\/p>\n<p>Now that people are finding out and saying something to me I honestly don&#8217;t know where to go with the conversation when they bring it up&#8230; &#8220;oh my gosh! I heard you&#8217;re moving to Cambodia!&#8221; &#8220;yeaa!! I am!!&#8221; &#8230;. (cricket.cricket)&#8230;. It&#8217;s like I have so much to say that I can&#8217;t even get out one word and I also don&#8217;t know what people want to hear. Everyone asks different questions. <\/p>\n<p>So, let me do a little QandA for you on this first of many blogs about the Cambo. <\/p>\n<p>What will you be doing? Well, I&#8217;m so glad you asked. =) I will be working for People for Care and Learning (http:\/\/www.peopleforcare.org\/) and my main priority is to enhance the education program for both of the Orphanages. There is an orphanage in Siem Reap called The Children&#8217;s Home, and a newer orphanage in Phnom Penh called Hope Orphanage. I hope to track all of those children on a path of success to higher education or a good job so poverty will not just be delayed for them, but rather nonexistent. I also hope to head up the PCL blog, the Cambodia side of it, because I enjoy writing so much and want to make sure all ministries etc. are exposed properly for everyone stateside to see. I&#8217;m REALLY excited about that part too! <\/p>\n<p>Where will you live? I don&#8217;t know exactly yet. There are several people going over in January, multiple graduates of Lee, and housing is being worked out. Although, I&#8217;m not totally for sure, I&#8217;m not that worried about it. There are several options so we just have to wait and see for a little while. <\/p>\n<p>Do you get paid? Noooo!!!!! =) I have to raise full support. $30,000 is my goal. yikes! <\/p>\n<p>What are you doing with your house? I have to rent it. I&#8217;m working out the details on that as well, but if anyone knows a trustworthy Clevelander that needs a nice, little home&#8230;. please contact me because I would like to rent to someone who will cause no problems. I live in a super calm, safe neighborhood. With sidewalks. ha. <\/p>\n<p>Did you quit your job? Well, basically, yes&#8230; I&#8217;m done in December. I told my principals right before school started. I was TERRIFIED to have this conversation but I do believe the Lord had a hand in this situation, the first of many hopefully, and they were wooooonnnnddeeeerrfullll about it. I am so glad they are supportive. I know that I really want and need my colleagues support the next few months. As it has started to leak out at LF, people have been very kind. <\/p>\n<p>I think this covers some of the main questions but there are many more things to think about to make sure I&#8217;ve got it all covered. I do hope to come home at least twice in that two year stretch. I also hope and wish that as many people come visit that possibly can!!!! Not only do I want and need to see my American friends, but I truly want people to be exposed to what PCL is doing because it&#8217;s mindblowing all that is going on over there. <\/p>\n<p>I hope my future blogs about Cambodia aren&#8217;t so businesslike but rather the heartside of why I felt the need to move there and what&#8217;s been going on in my life. <\/p>\n<p>I would also like to go ahead and let you know how you can give to support me. Just mail a check, made out to People for Care and Learning (or just PCL), and put in the memo line my name: Abby Fletcher. 100% will go into my account. I hope to have some materials made to pass out soon. <\/p>\n<p>People for Care and Learning<br \/>\n4235 TL Rogers St NE<br \/>\nCleveland, TN 37312-4991 <\/p>\n<p>Here we gooooo!!!!! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cambodia Bound! 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