MENDOTA ZION UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

Come, Share, Grow!

Clara Biswas is a missionary with the General Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church serving as a community worker in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.  She works with the "poorest of the poor,' especially children who live in slum areas, working to facilitate their transfers to relocation and rehabilitation centers.

Her work brings hope to the hopeless through educational opportunities, vocational training, medical care & financial suport to improve living conditions. Clara now works with the Berung Kok Methodist Church in Phnom Penh's large slum area of Toul Kork.  She also networks with other churches as well as visiting, monitoring, and caring for patients. Clara has extensive experience as a volunteer in the Student Christian Movement.  Her training in International, cross-cultural, and women's empowerment meetings is vast.  She speaks English, Bengali, Hindi, and Japanese. Born in Barisal, Bangladesh, Clara holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in social science and a diploma in rural leadership and development from the Asian Rural Institute in Tochigi-Ken, Japan.