Siem Reap,Cambodia by Vicheka Sara Pathoumthong
RHS senior Emilie Louizides wins Varian Fry humanitarian award
FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 2012
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
Today, nearly 200 Cambodian children, who might otherwise be begging on the street or searching for food in dumps, are getting an education. And that’s partly because of Ridgewood High School (RHS) senior Emilie Louizides.
Emilie receives a hug from her friend, Roat, at the Ridgewood Village School in Cambodia.
As a former co-president of the Cambodia Rural School Project at Benjamin Franklin (BF) Middle School and one of the leaders of the RHS Cambodia Club, Louizides helped build a school in a rural Cambodian village.
The “Ridgewood Village School,” which was completed in 2009, now serves more than 180 children in a country still recovering from a genocide that took place in the 1970s.
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