Pick up the phone, drop us a line, poke us on Facebook, or even come by for coffee. We are interested in talking to as many of you as possible. The more people we can get involved, the greater our chance for success.

A little about us.....we are a 30-something husband and wife team. We are American with dual US/British citizenship and have recently moved back to Denver, Colorado following seven years in London.. We are amateur philanthropists devoting ever increasing amounts of our time to this project. When we’re not working on Classrooms for Cambodia, Noëlle is usually experimenting with her camera (many photos on this site are hers) and Mike can be found cycling in the mountains of Colorado.  Other interests include the Gers region of France, spending time with friends and family, burritos and Dunkin Donuts.

Education-based philanthropy has been a cornerstone of Mike's adult life. In 1989 Mike was awarded an Evans Scholarship to attend the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Evans Scholarship is the largest privately funded college scholarship program in the US. The scholarship is awarded annually to deserving golf caddies demonstrating significant financial need. Receiving the Evans Scholarship changed Mike's life forever on a variety of levels. The Evans Scholarship funded Mike's four years of college tuition. It also introduced him to a chapter house of 90 fellow caddies, with whom he developed many close, lifelong friendships. Most importantly, it taught him enduring values of hard work, team play and charity.

Noëlle grew up in New Hampshire, and with a teacher for a mother, education was highly valued at home. Learning about the challenges faced by female students in Cambodia is of particular interest to Noëlle. Click here to read the moving profiles of some female students in AAfC schools who are being further sponsored by AAfC to ensure they attend school regularly. 

Noëlle attended the University of New Hampshire and currently works as an IT analyst for The Children's Hospital in Denver. At the end of the Khmer Rouge years, only 75 physicians were left alive throughout Cambodia - so today there remains an immense need to educate, train and support healthcare providers. Noëlle has volunteered for a U.S./Cambodian telemedicine project (Mass. General Hospital docs helping to diagnose Cambodian patients remotely), and hopes to be able to continue volunteer work in this area.