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Panha Tina Thuch graduated from California State University, Long Beach with a Bachelors of Science degree in Health Care Administration. She currently works at the corporate office of SCAN Health Plan in Long Beach helping to coordinate the health care of senior citizens telephonically and will later follow her bachelors with a Masters of Science in Gerontology. In 2006 Ms. Thuch traveled to Cambodia for the first time with a delegation of students from Cal State Long Beach. Through collaborations with Pannasastra University in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and six Non-Government Organizations (NGO's) she helped to bring art therapy to the underserved child population in the area. She was placed in the Cambodian Center for the Protection of Children's Rights (CCPCR), to work with young women and children who were rescued from sex trafficking. Her experiences while immersed in the culture opened a newfound passion for working toward the betterment of the future for the Cambodian people, both locally and abroad. In 2007 she returned to Cambodia for the same project with a different group of students. She served as a project advisor to the new students, assisting with project ideas and themes for the art therapy projects to continue. On her second trip, she worked with CCPCR again as well as with Little Sprouts and the Cambodian Dump Children Center (CDCC). Little Sprouts was an organization that offered food, shelter and schooling to HIV positive orphans. CDCC was an organization that also offered similar services, but instead to the population of children who foraged Cambodia's landfills for food and miscellaneous items to sell. Ms. Thuch has since taken an active role in the Long Beach community. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the American Red Cross, Greater Long Beach Chapter; she is also a member of their Disaster Action Team and serves the community by responding to local house and apartment fires and providing basic essentials to its victims and assessing damage and has assisted to distribute over 500 emergency survival kits to the Long Beach Cambodian community. She is beginning to become involved with community disaster education and preparedness. She also currently serves on the Executive Board of the Board of Directors for Cambodia Town Inc. She served as President to the Health Care Administration Student Forum of California State University, Long Beach, which is an official student chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executives and is a member of Women in Health Administration. |
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