b'CHAPTER 10THE CAMBODIA CONNECTIONM GA had expanded73well beyond Adelaide, with offices stretching across Australia, from Melbourne to Darwin. Now, the company was ready to take an even bigger step, nearly 6000 kilometresbeyond Adelaide. In 2014, MGA Insurance Brokers opened its first overseas office in Phnom Penh, Cambodia; a country with a rich history and a sometimes tragic past. But how did an Adelaide-headquartered Australian insurance broking firm end up in Phnom Penh?John became involved in Cambodia after meeting Opposite Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen (left) Geraldine Cox at a lunch in the late 1990s. Adelaide presents John George with an award recognising born and raised, Geraldine ran the Sunrise Childrens his work with the Australia Cambodia Foundation Villages in the war-scarred southeast Asian country.and the establishment of the Sunrise 3 Childrens She was passionate about her cause and was knownHIV Centre in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, 2014. as Mum to the many children in her orphanages.'