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Early bird tickets are 10% off until June 30, 2013 for Golden Leaf Education Foundation’s (GLEF) 4th annual gala benefit, A Magical Night in Cambodia on Saturday, August 3rd, 2013 at the Ainsworth Event Center at the Scottish Rite in Portland, … Continue reading →

On September 22, 2012, GLEF and the Portland Mutare Sister City Association (PMSCA) participated in a donation ceremony, symbolic of a new partnership. PMSCA connected GLEF to St. Werburgh’s Primary in Zimbabwe. The school’s kindergarten and special needs classrooms need … Continue reading →

Golden Leaf Education Foundation (GLEF) is moving forward with the next set of school projects! In April 2012, the Golden Leaf Education Foundation Board approved three school projects to focus our funds toward. Each of the submitted projects were thoroughly … Continue reading →

Golden Leaf Education Foundation’s 2012 Auction Gala, A Magical Night in Cambodia, proved truly magical. Thanks to the many volunteers and the generosity of our wonderful guests and donors, we raised approximately $61 thousand. This is enough to start construction … Continue reading →

On a humid afternoon in November of 2011, 40 humanitarians from the United States, England and Canada gathered with a group of nearly a thousand Cambodian dignitaries, families, students, elders and local residents under the shade of a large tent … Continue reading →

GLEF is excited to be a part of Wordstock on Saturday, Oct. 8-9 thanks to its Founder, Kilong Ung, author of  “Golden Leaf: A Khmer Rouge Genocide Survivor”. Wordstock is the “largest celebration of literature and literacy in the Pacific … Continue reading →

GLEF is honored to have the opportunity to collaborate with one its friends and volunteers in the “Colonel Tan Marathon Fundraiser”. To help celebrate this, GLEF has created its first “T(r)ee-Shirt and would like to give some away! (The T(r)-ee-Shirt … Continue reading →

About this time last year, GLEF first dream became a reality.  After raising enough funds at its first auction gala, plans to build the Âng School a new five-room building with bathrooms were put into action. In February 2011, GLEF’s … Continue reading →

When purchased here through the Golden Leaf Education Foundation website, GLEF retains 50 percent of each sale of “Golden Leaf: A Khmer Rouge Genocide Survivor” by Kilong Ung to further its mission to enhance educational opportunities internationally for children in … Continue reading →