Nou, Paul Sokhtal.

Paul Nou moved with his parents and siblings to Phnom-Penh, Cambodia in 1947. From 1960 to 1973 he worked as a high-school teacher and school principal in various places throughout Cambodia. After this, he worked for the U.S. Consulate in Battambang Province. When the Khmer Rouge regime came to power, he was made a forced laborer. After the Pol Pot government collapsed, he worked as a translator for the U.S. consulate, and the news and relief agencies in Nang Samit Camp on the Cambodia-Thailand border. This brought him to the attention of the U.S. ambassador in Bangkok and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, who was then setting up Khao-I-Dang Camp.

Nou helped in the organization and administration of this and two other camps, as well as coordinating relief aid and continuing to provide translation services to embassies and relief agencies. On January 9, 1981, Nou arrived in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, where he lived for six months and was sponsored by University of Central Michigan professors and their families, members of the local First Presbyterian Church. He was selected to be Program Director of the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Associations Project (CMAAP) in the Rochester area.

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