In 2007, in the midst of their teaching year, Denise DeLong ’69 and her husband, Jim, traveled to Cambodia, visiting the killing fields and the temples of Angkor Wot. Their lives were transformed. Jim’s student charity club at Bret Harte Middle School in San Jose, Invisible Issues, worked to raise enough funds to build a middle school in the rural Kep region of Cambodia under the auspices of the American NGO, World Assistance for Cambodia. In 2014, the couple established their own nonprofit—Doris Dillon School in Cambodia—which enabled them to continue supporting girls’ education through university. Education in this area, while mandatory until middle school, becomes a luxury especially for daughters. The DeLongs’ primary goal was to support girls’ education by supporting families with monthly stipends to offset what the daughters could earn if sent to work. Eighteen years later, they travel yearly to the school, teach classes there, and are deeply committed to making the lives of these students and their families better. Between 2018 and 2025 (except during COVID), they’ve taken groups of teen volunteers and their parents from America to the school during February break. Students design and teach their own lessons to enhance the Cambodian students’ educational experiences. Some past offerings include hands-on science lessons, Python coding, English, art, music, girls’ and boys’ health and development, girls’ empowerment, Ultimate Frisbee, and basketball.