GLOBAL CARE YOUTH LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE

EYE ON CAMBODIA
October 26, 2004

CONFERENCE PRESENTERS

Keynote Speaker: Arn Chorn-Pond

• Arn Chorn is a survivor of the Khmer Rouge Genocide (1975-79) and an award-winning human rights activist. He was the focus of a PBS Emmy-Award nominated PBS documentary “The Flute Player.” For more about Arn, go to:
  http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2003/thefluteplayer/update.html

Music: SEASIA

• SEASIA is a three person Cambodian-American that combines rap, hip-hop and traditional Cambodian music with a focus on Cambodia and the empowerment of children. SEASIA has received special permission from Yoko Ono to do a remix of John Lennon’s song “Imagine” which they will perform at our conference. For more about SEASIA, go to:
  http://www.cambodianmasters.org/masters/seasia_journey_2001/pages/
  journal_prologue.htm

Special Exhibit: Val Dubasky’s photographic exhibition: “To Plant Seeds, To Gather Wood”

• This 40 photo exhibit superbly reveals the impact of landmines on Cambodian civilians.

Speakers/Organizations

• Martha Hathaway, Executive Director, Clear Path International
  Clear Path International provides physical and vocational rehabilitation programs for landmine and bomb accident survivors, their families and their communities in former war zones in Southeast Asia. Their current projects are in Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Thai-Burma border. For more about Clear Path International, go to: http://www.cpi.org/index.php



• Kurt Chesko, Program Officer and Deminer, HALO Trust
  HALO Trust trains local people from mine-affected areas to locate and remove landmines. HALO works throughout Asia, Africa, the Balkans and the Caucuses and has cleared over 1.6 million landmines to date. For more about HALO, go to: http://www.halousa.org/



• Dr. Robert Nassau, Volunteer Physician, Angkor Children’s Hospital (Friends Without a Border)
  Friends Without A Border was founded in 1995 by internationally acclaimed photographer Kenro Izu to provide humanitarian assistance to Cambodian children. Angkor Hospital for Children (AHC), which was founded by Friends in 1999, has treated over 200,000 children for a wide variety of ailments. For more about Friends, go to: http://www.fwab.org/Pages/engindex.htm
  
  
• Arn Chorn and Elizabeth Chey, Cambodian Master Performers Program (CMPP)
  CMPP was created by Arn Chorn to encourage the cultural revival of traditional Cambodian art forms, with an emphasis on Cambodian classical music. (Ninety percent of Cambodian musicians and performers were victims of the Cambodian genocide.) CMPP locates and funds master musicians and performers to share their skills with the current youth generation of Cambodia. For more about CMPP, go to: http://cambodianmasters.org/
  



• Chat PierSath (Survivor of Khmer Rouge Genocide)
  Chat is an accomplished artist, poet and social worker. He has worked at a Cambodian orphanage and dreams of building a school in his Cambodian hometown. His focus will be the needs of Cambodian children.