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The inspiring story of Karelle Bolon (2/2)

1/23/2015 – Having secured the funds, it was time to justify the faith so many had put in her, and justify it she did. Travelling 18 hours to pick up the chess material, and then hours to reach the remote bush village and back, Karelle Bolon now teaches in two different schools, while working the five other days. She still faces challenges, but is committed to inspiring children to dream.

The inspiring story of Karelle Bolon (1/2)

1/22/2015 – Several months ago, we published an article on a young woman's fundraiser project to teach chess in Cambodia. To understand how remote that is in chess, FIDE lists exactly five players, of whom four are unrated. Karelle Bolon, a former top French junior, now working as a designer, decided to spread the word in a bush school, but needed help. The reader response was heartwarming.

Karelle Bolon's chess enterprise in Cambodia

9/22/2014 – Sometimes you encounter a project that absolutely screams for public support. Here is a former child chess star, now a fashion designer working in Cambodia, who wants to start a course of chess lessons in a bush school. In order to pay for the equipment she has started a Ulule crowdfunding page to raise the very modest sum of 430 Euros. Let us get this for her by the end of the day.
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