Cambodian Threads Founder Jacob Daniels Awarded Fulbright Scholarship!
We are very proud of CT’s co-founder Jacob Daniels, who was recently awarded the Fulbright Scholarship! He will be spending the next year in Vietnam, teaching English and traveling back and forth to Cambodia, where he will continue to head our philanthropic efforts over there. http://aspen.conncoll.edu/news/6277.cfm Daniels, who majored in government at Connecticut College, has been traveling and living abroad since his graduation. “I went to Korea to teach in the winter of 2008 and 2009, and then to Cambodia where I taught at the Pannasastra University of Cambodia and studied Buddhist philosophy,” Daniels said. “I’m currently traveling in India.” While in Cambodia, Daniels founded Cambodian Threads, a socially responsible company that sells fairly traded silk scarves made by a family of artisans from a small Cambodian village. A portion of the proceeds from every scarf is used to buy education necessities, including pencils, notebooks, calculators and rulers, which are donated to disadvantaged schools in the same region. “The Fulbright Fellowship will be a great opportunity for me to continue living abroad and expanding my international and cultural knowledge,” Daniels said.
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