The Arkoun earring jackets are part of the Emi & Eve jewellery collection. Our jewellery is made by artisans in Cambodia by recycling parts of artillery shells, bullet casings and missile tubes. ...
On my journey to understand the process of clearing mines and other XO and UXO, I have met with various landmine action operators in Cambodia. It's good to see that all the organisations seem to employ only a limited number of foreigners with the actual...
https://youtu.be/SL2P3ruMD9E Do you have a dog, a cat or maybe a pet rat? On April 5, which was International Mine Action Day, Emi & Eve adopted a professional landmine clearing rat called Magawa who works at Apopo in Siem Reap. APOPO is an acronym from Dutch which stands...
Emi & Eve is thrilled to announce our collaboration with jewellery atelier Ammo in Siem Reap. Ammo was founded by UK jewellery designer Madeline Green, who established her atelier with backing from local NGO SaoMao. Ammo Jewellery Design was formed from the desire to marry...
An insightful documentary "The Landmine Girls" by Emma Louise Fry, who was an International Journalism masters student at University College Falmouth at the time she made it. In it we follow two girls who are part of a CMAC demining unit and listen to them...
I was born in Pursat province, Cambodia. I don’t have any siblings and my mother died when I was 4 years old. My father was killed when I was 8 years old by a notorious Khmer Rouge soldier. It was a terrible time for me....
It's hard to imagine what went on thirty years ago in the Kingdom of Cambodia, where people now go about their business planting rice, going to market, getting married and going to school like anybody else in South East Asia. Talk to anyone as young...
What adventures did you create as a kid? Perhaps you built a tree house in the backyard, or played ball with the neighbours' kids. Until it was time to go in for dinner. This was a far cry for children in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge...
Emi & Eve have been working with a home working seamstress, Thearith Soun, for some time. Thearith is a skilled tailor. She is also not only a war survivor but also a HIV survivor. She heads a small group of seamstresses with HIV in her community....
A long ride in a tuk-tuk from the city centre of Phnom Penh, alongside other tuk-tuks and motorbikes laden with goods for market, brings us to a somewhat forlorn suburb with various sized houses, some unfinished. Cambodia has not got round to many things we...
The grand entrance of the CMAC headquarters in Phnom Penh is flanked by two tall upright decommissioned bombs. It delivers you into a cream walled, empty, high ceilinged lobby featuring an enormous poster depicting a green countryside scene of demining activities. The public relations officer...