My Grandmother and Me: International Service-Learning in Cambodia with Children Infected and Affected by HIV/AIDS

This article provides perspectives on a multi-partner international collaboration that led to the creation of a therapy program that reached forty Cambodian children orphaned by HIV/AIDS to help them cope with the loss of their parents. This program, co-created by a university faculty member and a doctoral student from the U.S., two faculty members from a Cambodian university, four Cambodian undergraduate students, and a nongovernmental organization that provides services to families infected and affected by HIV/AIDS, allowed these orphans to reframe their narratives using Solution-Focused and Narrative therapies to concentrate on the positive aspects of their relationships with their grandmother caregivers. Suggestions are given on how others can improve their own curriculum based service-learning projects to be more culturally sensitive and age appropriate.