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Last spring, Campbell Rotary members graciously invited us to make a presentation about the Doris Dillon School and Leland high school students and parents’ recent volunteer during their Presidents’ Week vacation to teach girls’ and boys’ health, CPR and basic health, hands-on science, Arduino programming, basic computer skills, and English classes.
Click here to view our presentation to Campbell Rotary members!
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Read here in their own words about our six alumni who are now juniors in top Cambodian universities!
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Empowering rural communities through education.
In 2007, Bret Harte Middle School and Leland High School students in San Jose, CA chose to raise funds to build a middle school in the rural Cambodian village of Sangker Doch in Kampot province. They named it The Doris Dillon School to honor a nationally acclaimed elementary teacher who taught locally for many years before dying of ALS in 2001.
We've created education projects to support all students' education through high school and university to fully enable each student to create a career path which best realizes each student's gifts and passions. We've become one of the top-ranked village schools nationally, based on 9th grade national examination results.
And, we've worked with village families to develop health and sustainability projects to help each family create a better future.
Our life here in Silicon Valley contrasts in so many ways with our many visits to our school. We are committed to finding ways to expose students to the myriad technologies that are shaping our world, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and software engineering in general.
Take the example of Nvidia's Drive PX AI computing platform for driverless cars. It will deliver over 320 trillion operations per second, more than 10 times the performance of its predecessor system. It equals the AI performance of a 100-server data center. And, all this power will come in a computer that is "roughly the size of a license plate," according to CEO Jensen Huang.
Join us in this effort to help students in a remote village in Cambodia discover their roles in bettering the world through transformative technologies.
Note: 100% of all donations will be used to fund projects and programs for village students, alumni, teachers, and families. No funds will ever be used to fund administrative expenses and board member travel and expenses.
You can double your donation, if you work for a company with a Matching Gift program, by applying for a matching donation from your company. We are registered with most of the organizations that manage matching gift programs for companies (e.g., benevity, Your Cause, Network for Good). Click on the Take Action button at the bottom of this page if you want to donate funds to our projects and programs.
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Read here about our U. S. State Dept. grant to provide English Intensive lessons to 30 high school students for two years.
New! Click here to find out how you can make a gift by donating stocks and/or mutual funds directly, donating IRA funds (e.g., Required Minimum Distributions), contributing from a Donor Assisted Fund, or even by donating your car (free towing!).
Now you can help just by buying Amazon and Office Depot/Max stuff. Click here to find out more.
Read about our wonderful 9th Grade National Exam results here (based on this, we’re one of the top nationally ranked village schools).
Read about our 60 student and parent volunteers and their work at the Doris Dillon School
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No-cost ways to donate:
1. Amazon: Amazon donates 0.5% of your purchases to the charity of your choice. Here's how it works: Just go to (its https://smile.amazon.com/ (the same site as amazon.com) and login to your Amazon account. When you're prompted to choose the charity you want Amazon to donate 0.5% of your purchases to, type in "Doris Dillon School in Cambodia." Now, whenever you want to purchase items through Amazon, just access Amazon through https://smile.amazon.com/ and Amazon will automatically donate 0.5% of your purchases to our school.
2. Kent Laux and his wife Channy Laux, the author of Short Hair Detention, her memoir of life during the genocide, are the owners of Angkor Foods, an online business that specializes in authentic Cambodian spices, sauces, and condiments that Channy has created. They will donate 5% of all purchases to our school. Just use the following link to go to their website: