Fun. Exciting. Informational.
For Another year of Fun
Sunday August 19th
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Ben Brenman Park
Alexandria, VA
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CCD is operated on a volunteer basis. If you think you can help, click here.
Ben Bao: (571) 276-9630
Sophia Tep: (703) 966-9590
Lowell Cole: (703) 620-3074
Email: ccdinfo@cambodiancommunityday.org
Welcome to the Cambodian Community Day (CCD) website. We appreciate your visit. The CCD seeks to integrate the Cambodian culture into American society. CCD is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. All donations are tax-deductible to the extent of the laws.
The purpose of celebrating the Cambodian Community Day is to bring Cambodian and American families/communities together to recognize Khmer achievements, to raise the awareness of Khmer culture, and to strengthen Khmer voice in America and in the world. We believe that Cambodian heritages are abundant, but few people in the world know about them. We seek to erase world's bad perception that Cambodia is a killing fields...
On behalf of Cambodian Community Day (CCD) Board of Directors, members and volunteers, I would like to wish you a Happy Khmer New Year, Buddhist Era 2557, the Year of Snake. May you have success, prosperity, good health in the year to come.
Mak Theung is a Cambodian 18th century love story torn apart by a cruel act of a mean prince, Pya Noy. It is a love between a peddler, Mak Theung, selling beauty products and his younger wife, Meuy cheuy. They lived happily in the village surrounded by many good friends. One day, the prince and his entourage visited the market place in the rural country where Mak Theung...
Cambodian Community Day is a 501(c)(3) organization. Your donation is tax-deductible to the extent of the laws. We believe our mission is a noble cause. Please help us achieve our goal. Your online donation via PayPal is secured.
Other News:
A Khmer Archaeologist visited USA in July 2012 to present his research finding about ancient iron smelter in Cambodia to Cambodian-American communities. One of his stop was Washington, DC Metro area. Click on picture to watch the VOA News coverage during his presentation in Annandale VA.
Click the picture to read and play the video.
Sam Relief was very busy in early April of 2012 and has delivered another 10 tons of rice to Angkor Children Hospital at Siem Reap.
Women's Health Study: http://mapa.nur.utexas.edu
We have bought a replica of Angkor Wat (picture shown above). It is a sculpture made out from stone, by a sculptor in Pursat province, Cambodia. It is 1.3 meter long, 1.1 meter wide and .35 meter high. It took more than 2 months to complete the sculpture. Click the picture to enlarge.
Phare Ponleu Selpak (website: www.phareps.org) is a Cambodian association providing artistic activities to children and adults around the Battambang vicinity. The artistic fields are: performing arts (circus, theater, dancing, music), visual arts (cartoon animation, painting contemporary, illustration and graphic design) and social actions (governmental school pre-school through high school, child care center, and transitional youth house). Learn more ...
The traditional cloth making method and other crafts have been abandoned by indigenous people because of modern life style and industrial technology. CANDO Craft Center, just like CCD, like to preserve their culture and tradition. Please help support them by buying their product. 56% of sale proceed will go to the maker, meaning the indigenous people. They are the people who have a self-reliance life style. For more information, click this link: www.elevyn.com/shop/cando.
Master Ngek Chum
Classical Dances Instructor, Musician
Ngek Chum Profile
Savy Ouch
Chanthourn Thuy
Montgomery Blair High School student Chankea Omkar, 17, was one of 254 teens in the world to receive a scholarship to attend a Honeywell Leadership Challenge Academy (HLCA) program.
March 16, 2012
Coming soon.
March 2012
CCD Nurtures friendship building and community networking and unifies all people of all walks of life.
