by luisa gentile | Jan 21, 2025
Have you woken up this morning feeling disconnected from your work? While sitting in countless meetings, do you find yourself questioning your career path? Do you feel a sense of detachment between your work and your values and priorities in life? Are you craving...
by luisa gentile | Dec 17, 2024
Seven years have passed since we last spoke with Godie Van de Paal, the visionary founder of Kingdom of WOW (KOW), an ethical handmade footwear manufacturer based in Siem Reap, Cambodia. In the intervening years, Godie has navigated a world reshaped by the pandemic...
by luisa gentile | Dec 5, 2024
Meet Pia Richards… Volunteering at Angkor Hospital for Children in Siem Reap, Cambodia, has been one of the highlights of my professional career to date. The opportunity to use my skills and education to contribute to an organisation making actual...
by luisa gentile | Nov 30, 2024
A Different Kind of Impact: Why I Say No to Volunteering with Children? As the founder of Professionals doing good (Pdg), I’ve always been committed to empowering local communities by fostering ethical partnerships and providing expert knowledge. While...
by luisa gentile | Dec 5, 2021
Today is the Volunteer’s International day, and for us, it is about celebrating Professionals Doing Good (PDG) amazing professional volunteers worldwide making a genuine difference in Cambodia with their skilled and qualified support. This year, though, we would...
by luisa gentile | Aug 21, 2021
Sara is a 20-year-old Portuguese student in her third year of a Marketing degree at ISCAP (Porto Accounting and Business School). Keen to put her studies into practice while supporting a worthwhile cause, Sara enthusiastically accepted to participate in “The Write...
by luisa gentile | Jul 25, 2021
How to stay motivated when volunteering from home. Online volunteering is a novel experience for many volunteers who often find it challenging to stay emotionally connected and motivated with a volunteer project from far away. In this article, Miriam Fois, a freshly...
by luisa gentile | Jun 30, 2021
Boosting your communication skills through a virtual internship. Beatrice Casati is an Italian student in her second year studying Language, Civilisation and the Science of Language at Ca’ the Foscari University of Venice who has participated in the Virtual...
by luisa gentile | May 7, 2021
The weather system in Cambodia is pretty different – and much simpler – if compared to the Western one. In fact, the country has two distinct weather seasons: Dry Season, from October to April, with its peak is November and December. As the name...
by luisa gentile | Dec 2, 2020
Cambodia has been blessed so far—to date (12-2020), no patients have died from Covid-19 according to the Cambodian government. Regardless of what the future brings, while other countries have faced a first, second or third wave of the virus, we have been spared so far...
by luisa gentile | Nov 11, 2020
The do’s and don’ts of virtual volunteer management Article written by : Georgia Morrison – Free to Shine Board Member When working with virtual volunteers, there are a few things that you can do to ensure the project goes smoothly. With the added challenges;...
by luisa gentile | Mar 21, 2020
by luisa gentile | Apr 28, 2019
Meet Lilia Leung… Lilia is our very own content developer who is responsible for editing and posting articles onto our website, as well as putting together our monthly newsletter. She is currently based in Switzerland and has been volunteering with us from...
by luisa gentile | Mar 26, 2019
Professionals doing good sat down to talk with Kneath Heard, Executive Director of Journeys Within Our Community (JWOC). Originally from Bristol (UK), Kneath took a Master’s degree in International Development and worked in South Korea and Malaysia, before moving to...
by luisa gentile | Dec 7, 2018
Since the late 2000s, the term “employee engagement” has escaped the closed door of the HR department and become widespread in management practice as a shared responsibility across the organisation. The capacity to keep your people motivated and committed has turned...
by luisa gentile | Dec 1, 2018
Like planning a holiday, preparing for a volunteer experience abroad requires some thinking on how to be financially sustainable during your stay. The vast majority of legit and ethical international NGOs require volunteers to pay for their travel and living...
by luisa gentile | Nov 25, 2018
Like many people, when I reached my forties and after having worked several years in the corporate sector, I somehow felt that there had to be more to life. Don’t get me wrong, I had been blessed with a great life: I had exciting jobs, I was travelling the...
by luisa gentile | Oct 8, 2018
In Cambodia, Pchum Ben (Ancestor’s Day) is celebrated on the 15th day of the tenth month in the Khmer calendar. This is a unique Cambodian Buddhist celebration consisting of a colourful religious festival blessing the souls of ancestors, relatives, and friends...
