And the winner is (drum roll, please!) Ong Em! Her smile was worth the 60-minute wait. Under the direction of Sonja Overhiser (acouplecooks.com), CGI’s current class of culinary students created a western dish in just one hour during Sonja’s March visit. CGI’s Culinary Training Center, adjacent to Green Mango Cafe & Bakery in Battambang, Cambodia, […]
The loving hands of 150+ state-side volunteers like Joanna Goodwin make CGI’s byTavi program possible. Raised in a Christian home, Joanna participated in mission work in Moscow, Russia and Honduras. Because of her love for God’s people, Joanna attended the 2011 North American Missionary Convention where she first encountered byTavi. She was so awed by […]
When Center for Global Impact’s president Chris Alexander founded byTavi, the dream was to teach women in Cambodia a skill that would help them improve their lives. That dream has come alive through over 40 women in just four and a half years. However, the dream didn’t stop there but has led to much more […]
In September 2012 I had the joy of participating in CGI’s 5K. I signed up anticipating my husband would watch our 15-month-old son and 3 ½ year old daughter while I lazily jogged the trail. Well, husband dearest needed to rescue a jet engine, leaving me with our children. I quickly realized my simple, sweet […]
My sister died of cancer the day before I was scheduled to leave for Cambodia. While my heart broke, I knew it would honor her memory to go there to see what I could do to empower the poor and prevent human trafficking. My sister and I both shared a passion for this area of […]
Usually I don’t pre-pay and register to make a fool of myself. I can do that for free. But I’m considering it this time because it’s for a great cause. With CGI’s annual Empower Golf Outing on the horizon (Friday morning, June 7, in case you’re wondering), I’m seriously considering digging out my 1976 vintage […]
Sokhoeun, the Culinary Training Center’s newest staff member, isn’t there because of food. Instead she focuses on the students—their lives, their families, and their well-being. She enjoys her new position as CGI’s social worker in Battambang, Cambodia. “I want to help poor families, especially the children. I want to see them have a good future […]
Corey Devereaux, who helped facilitate CGI’s honey production project, shares God’s work in Kosova. What a blessing it is to visit Hyra in Morinë. Hyra and her sister in-law Raza lost their husbands and some sons in the genocide performed by the Serbian army in 1998-1999. Chris Alexander, Doug Harty and CGI became involved with the […]
Ignite Women shares a passion with byTavi for seeing women set free – spiritually, as well as physically. During Ignite’s recent Bible study, Vanessa Alexander shared how lives are transformed by the power of Jesus Christ through the work of CGI. Linda Thomas, Ignite leader and author of In Step with the Spirit, also shared […]
Yes, I had an idea of what Cambodia would be like–sunny, hot, crowded, and brimming with poverty. But no, I didn’t expect so many smiles and Buddhist monks clothed in shiny orange togas carrying umbrellas, exchanging blessing for money. I had no idea CGI in-country staff like Vibol, Sopheony, Sreyleak, Nary, and LyPhalla, would soon […]