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bethanmaker
Apr 13, 20236 min
2023 Bopha School Menstrual Education
Throw a pebble into a pond and there’s a ripple effect. The ripple effect of the Bopha Project involve things like the football story,...
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bethanmaker
Apr 10, 20235 min
Bopha School Water Project
Travel to Siem Reap and you’ll find a thriving, ever expanding, tourist town. Pub Street blares out thumping music. The night sky is lit...
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bethanmaker
Apr 9, 20234 min
Bopha School Football Club
Backstory: In January the Bopha School Project delivery team reduced to a single person: me. As a result my husband Adam jumped on board,...
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bethanmaker
Apr 9, 20234 min
Bumpy Rides
Sometimes things go smoothly. So smoothly that you don’t actually realise how good you’ve got it. The first Bopha Project School was a...
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bethanmaker
Mar 14, 20231 min
10 Days To Go!
In just over a week the Bopha Team will assemble in Siem Reap before heading out to the location of our next project: a tiny school...
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bethanmaker
Jan 15, 20234 min
New School Year For Bopha
It’s funny thinking about where various years begin, isn’t it? The school year here in the UK starts in September, the tax year starts in...
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bethanmaker
Nov 14, 20224 min
Alex Machin - Illustrator
Whilst in Cambodia on our 2019 trip, Steven - later to become the co-founder of Bopha School - wore an interesting t-shirt. It was an...
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bethanmaker
Nov 10, 20223 min
Jo Hummel - Phenomenologist
The work of Jo Hummel plays with my mind. Textures of pulpy paper, broken by serrated colour make my eyes feel like finger tips. They...
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bethanmaker
Nov 5, 20223 min
David Firmstone MBE RWS - "A Romantic Surrealist" - Richard Cork / Art Critic
“David,” I said, looking my lovely artist friend up and down. “I’d really love to look in your wardrobe.” “Look in my wardrobe?” He...
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bethanmaker
Nov 4, 20223 min
Kerrie Hearn - Ceramicist and Painter
Kerrie Hearn and I have history. Aged 13, on my first day of high school, I sat next to her on the school bus. She was 17, way cooler...
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bethanmaker
Nov 3, 20225 min
Celia Wilkinson - The Paintery & The Orderly
When I (Bethan) decided to put on a fundraising art auction for the Bopha School Project, I had no idea how demanding such an idea would...
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bethanmaker
Nov 2, 20223 min
Phil Capon - Painter
It was all rather clandestine. We met in The Chocolate Apothecary and sat on high seats, below towering dark shelves boasting dusty...
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bethanmaker
Nov 1, 20223 min
Amanda Wheeler - Ocean Artist
Introducing Amanda Wheeler, one of the Isle of Wight artists who has kindly donated an original piece to the Bopha School Of Art Night...
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bethanmaker
Oct 31, 20224 min
Matthew Chambers / Ceramicist
Introducing Matthew Chambers, one of the fabulous artists who have donated pieces to the upcoming Bopha School of Arts Auction ... Scroll...
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bethanmaker
Oct 12, 20222 min
Bopha School Of Art Night
It seems as though autumn and winter are the seasons for not only pumpkins and fires, but also the Bopha School fundraising missions to...
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Toby Sleight
Oct 10, 20222 min
Period Poverty: What’s the Deal?
Period Poverty is the lack of access to sanitary products due to financial constraints. According to the charitable organization Days for...
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