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The United Nations rates the right to a primary education second only to the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger.
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AKD School Founder
RICHARD HICKS
August 8, 1942
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December 23, 2011
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Classrooms Without Borders strives to provide free and sustainable education with world-class standards in underserved communities and developing countries.
We envision a more balanced world where all students have the same opportunity to achieve their full potential through free, high quality, fundamental education.
Inspired by their father , Richard Hicks' need to fund an English language learning school in Battambang, Cambodia, Pamela Spycher and Steven Hicks formed Classrooms Without Borders in 2008. The mission of the organization was centered around the call to fund the Cambodian school's operating costs, but quickly broadened to embrace a universal ideal that everyone has a right to free, fundamental education with "world class standards."
Classrooms Without Borders envisions a world where everyone has equitable access to education so that they may achieve their
full potential .
James Richard Hicks Richard Hicks passed away peacefully on Friday, December 23, 2011 at the age of 69. He was born in Hanford on August 8, 1942 to James and Evelynne Hicks, lived most of his life in Fresno, and made a home in Cambodia in the last decade of his life.
Richard attended Fresno High School, Fresno State University, and the University of California at San Diego. His love of books and language naturally led him to become a teacher, a profession he carried out with a unique passion and a true connection to each and every one of his students. He taught college English and English as a Second Language, both in Fresno and abroad, and he inspired all of his children to become teachers in one form or another.
He was a loving son, brother, husband, father, grandfather, and friend who inspired his loved ones through his interests in education, literature, philosophy, and the
arts, as well as his spirit of independence, creativity, and selflessness. During his lifetime, Richard created countless paintings, drawings, poems, essays, plays, and
sculptures that brought pleasure and stimulated active conversation.
Richards art, especially his colorful paintings, inspired those who were close to him to explore creativity on many levels. He constantly encouraged his children
and grandchildren to be themselves and to think independently, regardless of conventions and norms. Richard lived life on his terms, and he encouraged his
family to do the same.
In 2002, Richard moved to Cambodia with his wife and founded the Association for Knowledge Development (AKD) school in a village near Battambang. He directed
the school and taught English there until his death. The schools primary focus is to provide a free and sustainable education with world-class standards to underserved
Cambodian children, youth, and adults. Richards work with the school inspired his children to establish a charitable non-profit to support AKD and other schools like it
in the world.
Richard is survived by his wife, Boeun Sum Hicks, his nine children, his mother Evelynne Hicks and siblings Janis Patch, Rodney Hicks, and Meredith Hicks; and countless nieces and nephews. A teacher and artist all his life, Richard would want us to consider the short time we had with him as a call to seize opportunities to create loving relationships with our fellow human beings and make positive changes in the world. He often shared his core belief that God lives within each person and in the eternal love of Jesus Christ. He loved people of all faiths and walks of life. We know that he is still with us and will watch over us as we continue to grow in our individual and collective journeys.
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