Travel to Teach: Cambodia Personnel

Muoy
Muoy You is the founder and manager of Seametrey Montessori School. She is a native Cambodian and has returned to her native country along with her husband in 2001 after spending twenty years abroad. She received her Doctoral degree in French in Paris and has lived in London for many years. She has returned to Cambodia to help rebuild her country and instill a sense of self-esteem and pride.

Felix
Felix manages our programs in Sihanouville. He was born Ibiza, Spain, but brought up in numerous countries and after moving as a youth to San Francisco, USA, he graduated from Oberlin College with a degree in Geology. He has now been with the project for over two years, helping to bring the NGO from its humble beginnings to its current state through hard work and dedication.

Felix strives to maintain the environment of safety and happiness that the projects children are becoming used to. Not only does he have a passion for this work, but Felix is also is a talented musician and athlete, always up for a game in any sport.

Madeline

Madeline Kilpatrick, an international affairs and economic development graduate from San Juan Island, Washington joined out partnering organisation in Sihanoukville in 2010 as their new Program Manager. Ater spending two years teaching English at a university in Hunan, China, she returned to the US to receive her Master's in clinical social work from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Madeline is particularly interested in international social work and refugee mental health. She hopes to continue building a career in which she can live in developing nations and combine her love for social work and social service with her passion for travel and adventure.

Pheap
Pheap runs the kids art studio in Sihanouville and has been with the project since its start in 2005. He used to be a monk and has come all the way from the northern countryside of Cambodia. Now 28 years old, he is happily married and has a beautiful newborn baby boy. Always up for a good joke, Pheap is a born entertainer. Because of this he has great rapport with the kids, organizing plays, parties and sports activities. Not only a good handyman, Pheap is generous and caring social worker, always willing to help out anyone in need.

Chamreoun
Chamreoun, or James Brown as he likes to be called, is a local guy born and raised in Sihanoukville town. He has been working with the project for over a year now. Like Pheap, he also studied as a monk in his youth. Chamreoun is a qualified English teacher and is in charge of our teaching programs also acting as a liaison with the government and local NGO?s. Chamreoun is responsible for a lot of the recent progress of our project. He is also a great cook and a passionate karaoke singer.

Kerstin
Kerstin was a Swedish consultant who left behind a long career in Swedish local and regional agencies to set up and manage Travel-to-Teach. She operates from a house in the center of Nongkhai, Thailand. Kerstin's essays, written in Swedish, are syndicated to magazines on Scandinavian airlines destined for BKK.

Contact Kerstin: apply_thai@travel-to-teach.org

Charlotte
Charlotte, a Media and Communications major from England first volunteered for us in the Spring of 2004, she then returned and joined T2T in 2005 and worked as our business development manager in Nongkhai. She is now back again working as our Marketing and International Programme Manager.

Contact Charlotte: charlotte@travel-to-teach.org

David
David is a Computer Science graduate from the UK and former Phon Phisai volunteer runs the Travel to Teach website. He also built the database and office systems we use for our application procedure and the day to day running of our programs. Although now working in Costa Rica David still manages our website.

Contact David: david@travel-to-teach.org

Renee
Renee initially came to Thailand at the start of 2009 to volunteer in Nongkhai before becoming our International Programme Manager. She helped move our head office from Thailand to Mexico and she expanded our projects to the African continent, where we now have programmes in Ghana and Uganda. She is now our UK representative. She also has extensive knowledge of traveling throughout Southeast Asia, Latin America and Europe. She presently resides in Nottingham, England where she is completing her degree in English and Drama.

Contact Renee: apply@travel-to-teach.org

Darcy
Darcy Tucker is our USA Representative. She has extensive experience traveling throughout South East Asia as well as Europe, South America, Central America and the USA. She has lived/worked/studied/traveled in over 25 countries. Based in New York City, she currently works as a project manager for the non-profit group New Leaders for New Schools. Darcy comes from a family of many educators, has worked in for-profit and non-profit contexts and has taught English overseas. In her free time she enjoys planning her next holiday, scuba diving, reading, cooking and dancing to 80's music.