1. V S O - I C S
V o l u n t a r y S e r v i c e O v e r s e a
I n t e r n a t i o n a l C i t i z e n S e r v i c e
Personal Development
Linden came from Kampong
Cham province, Cambodia.
He finished university in
2014. When finished univer-
sity he came to volunteer in
VSO-ICS program that saw
in Bongthom website. When
already training many day in
Phnom Penh he was a select-
ed in the Ratanakiri team
that project title is
Ratanakiri Youth Engage-
ment and Participation Pro-
ject and name of the team is
VI185 Ratanakiri.The office,
we work with Yeak Laom
commune, Banlong city,
Ratanakiri province, that
stay on the national high-
way, near indigenous round-
about and next to Police
station. My host home in
Chri village have long 4-5
kilometres to my office and
everyday my counterpart and
I cycling 10-15 minute go to
work, we have most sweet
memory like to cycling claim
on many mountain
on the road and we
can saw the good
view.
About Chri village
stay near the Yeak
Laom lake maybe
one kilometre be-
hind of my house
we can walk there,
we also can have a
good looking the
local protecting
around the Yeak Laom lake
from the window of the
house. I have two counterpart.
Clair come from Leeds, Eng-
land. She have some of rings
on the nose, ear, tongue and
she like dancing. She can ate
everything like hot foods,
Khmer foods and indigenous
foods but hate Khmer cheese
or fish-paste. Anna come from
Stasford, England. She is good
looking and like Bayonce sing-
er like me too. She always fall
the bike cycle and don't like
spacy foods, also she don’t
like fish-paste.
Have many thing that
in I got from ICS pro-
gram, such as: training
my skill (LAW), help
indigenous people,
training teaching Eng-
lish, work with commu-
nity, work in team,
improvement my Eng-
lish speaking, learn
most about indigenous
culture, have a lot of
new friends, know new
local, share experience
and knowledge with
others volunteers, build
the bridges and stairs of
the bridges, make me can
write the report in Eng-
lish and translate docu-
ment English to Khmer
like Survey question-
naire, M and E question
In the ICS program
About Linden and Placement
Special points of interest:
 English and Law class with indige-
nous people.
 Set the plan, concept not and
report.
 Running the plan or do activity in
the plan.
 Have good view in host home and
work placement.
 Learn about language, traditional ,
food , norm and job Tam Poun
indigenous.
Personal Development:
About Linden and Placement 1
In the ICS program 2
Before ICS 3
After ICS 4
ICS Contribute 5
Achievements in the ICS 6
Impacted on my future plan 7
On the road go to placement photographer
by Linden
CIS CYCLE 4, RATANAKIRI
STATE: 18-11-2014
FINISH: 03-02-2015
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English class in Chri Village

2. Page 2 CIS Cycle 4, Ratanakiri
Before I have lot of
work for the money,
but now came and
work for the volun-
teer came to help
community are so dif-
ferent. Since I start
the class in the univer-
sity I don’t have free
time for social work
and I a little of time
to help other people.
Until I finish universi-
ty and I looking for a
new job I saw ICS
program, they recruit
the volunteer go to
work in Ratanakiri
province. First time I
think how can I do
this work, can I share
the lesson in universi-
ty, can I work with
foreigner and how
about my language. I
don't know everything
and what I decide
about this because I
don’t have experience
about this before. In
the finally, I decided
to in join in the ICS
program. I think, it’s
better if I get most
new experience from
other place.
have most thing that I
work with other team
such as: we repair and
add more some hand-
craft of indigenous peo-
ple in the Environment
and Cultural center
work with CIYA team,
Yeak Laom youth, Agri-
culture team.
ferent idea or disagree
about something.
About work independ-
ent we make a schedule
to work like personal
working, work in team
we have six member in
the Yeak Laom team( 2
Khmer and 4 UK vol-
unteers) and work in
the lake together. And
home they are friendly
and kindly family but
they very shy to much,
the after is new experi-
ence like I can build the
bridges and stair for the
bridges that I never do
this before. I just still
learn build bridge from
the builder many time I
can do by own self. The
other, I have teaching
English in to indigenous
peoples in my host
home very Monday to
Friday a week for two
hour. Share my experi-
ence about the law skill
and general knowledge
to my host home and
student. Resolve the
problem in the work
placement and host
home when we have dif-
When got in the ICS pro-
gram, I know more about
the hard life because when
I work Ratanakiri prov-
ince my transportation is
bike cycle, live so far away
from the family that I nev-
er do like this before and
sleep, eating and live in
the community that never
know before but it’s very
closely because my host
“True is real
Real is not fake,
Fake in not true
True was logistical ”
After ICS Program
Work placement build the bridge.
Before ICS Program
When we just came to ICS Pro-
gram.
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3. Page 3Personal Development
The contribute to this
change, I really happy to
see that when ICS pro-
gram lead me to do the
most of new thing for
three months, I have to
learnt about work in the
team with Khmer and UK
volunteers, sometime we
have not the some idea
but we have only gold is
come and help the com-
munity, this reason make
me feel good and can stay
and work with you UK
volunteer. And also know
about other country
traditional or norm like
the UK volunteers they
don’t stick about walk-
ing run-
ning sleep-
ing so dif-
ferent with
K h m e r
volunteers.
O t h e r
thing, get
knowledge
about envi-
r onm ent
local protecting in the
Ratanakiri prov-
ince, study about Tam
Poun indigenous people
about how they live,
food, religion, language,
and we ex-
change the idea
about general
knowledge, and
especially ICS
program give
me the chance
to teaching Eng-
lish, sharing my
skill.
community and other
thing like work with
poverty and charity in
Cambodia. And if I
have a chance become
to a lawyer, I want to
create a law firm to help
poor people in the
International Citizen
Service– Give me a lot
of idea, especially make
me want to event a new
organization or write a
plan for get fan to run
the project about Law
education in the poor
countryside or rural ar-
ea because the most vic-
tim in Cambodia they
don’t have enough
money to get the lawyer
come to help them like
rich people.
ICS Contribute
ICS Impacted on the future plan
way and make the
pollution in the lake,
repair and build the
new bridges around
the lake, make Eng-
lish class for student
in the community, re-
pairing the indigenous
heritage center and add
more things in there
we have a corporate
with other team work.
About the achievement
in the ICS program
Yeak Laom team we got
most of thing such as:
Take down the old sign
and put back the new
sign that talk about pro-
tecting the lake. we
bought most of new bin
for all huts in the lake
because the most time
the visitors they throw
the rubbish the wrong
“Challenge yourself to
Change the world”
Achievement in the ICS Program
Environment protection around
the lake.
Activity Yeak Laom team in the office,
work placement.
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4. My Story
All Khmer and UK volunteers always have most of trip together like MPR committee, CAD com-
mittee we goes to Yeak Laom lake, Ka Chang water fall, Angkor Wat in Siem Reap province,
Cha Ung water fall, BBQ and go to the farm to help host home. And when we finished to work in
the lake I always swimming with my coworker when we finish the at the afternoon, but some of
Khmer volunteers they also can’t swim. We are always stay at the side of the lake, so cool!!!
Yeak Laom team member:
Linden, Sothea, Gemma , Helena,
Claire, Hadyn
ty such as energizers, gen-
eral knowledge, and social
work. I am very happy
that I have time with them
because they have charac-
The most memory in
three months of ICS
program I can’t forget in
my life, the thing that I
interesting with the pro-
gram such as: new local,
placement, live with in-
digenous people, indige-
nous food, protecting
local especially a thing
that I really like is teach-
ing indigenous people,
about the schedule of
classroom we study six
day a week and 2 to 3
hour per a day and the
lesson we have English
class, Law, Hard life and
also we have some activi-
teristic different from
khmer people, they
work hard with family,
asked me about how to
be a kind person.
Memory with ICS
Phone: (+855) 92 8844 90
Website: www.lylinden.wordpress.com
E-mail: lylinden7@gmail.com
Address: #1001, St 02, Cheack Angrie
Le, Khant Mean Chey, Phnom Penh.
ICS program– International
Citizen Service
We’re in the ICS
program cycle 4
Ratanakiri Team
VOLUNRY SERVICE
OVERSEA
Tampoun tradition pray for god when have new people
caome and live with, drink white win photo by Linden.
Finished English Class so exhausted
Anna sleep outside bedroom.
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