The Sinclair Family

So, how about a little background on my family, and how we ended up in Cambodia? In January 2001, my wife, Shirley, and I were accepted to serve with OMF International, a Christian agency working in East Asia. We left the UK with our two children Lisa (then 8) and Martin (then 6), going initially to Singapore, at the end of October 2001, and we have been in Cambodia since early December 2001. After one year's Khmer language study in Phnom Penh, I was seconded by OMF as Professor of Computer Science, developing and teaching on a new Master of Information Technology course, at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, and Shirley to be the OMF Team Centre Librarian. In August 2005, we went back to the UK for a year where, as well as deputation for OMF, Shirley studied counselling part-time, and I was Visiting Fellow in Electronic Systems Engineering at the University of Essex. I also managed to take ten weeks out to study at All Nations Christian College. We have been back in Cambodia since July 2006, with Shirley continuing as Team Librarian, acting as Listening Ear to the OMF Team, and also seconded part-time to the Prison Fellowship Cambodia supervising a team of Cambodian social workers. For my part, I was seconded to NPIC (National Polytechnic Institute of Cambodia) as Professor of Information Technology for two years, as well as a number of other roles for OMF. In the last year I have been increasingly involved with our Development Centre for OMF's IPS - Connecting People project, most recently acting as the Development Centre Manager for the team of six Cambodian programmers.