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Location & Population
- Southern Cambodia, 4 hours south of the capital city Phnom Penh., 15 mns north of Sihanoukville
- Village: Klang Leu
- 2 nurses, paid by donations
- 20 children, between 1 day and 5 years old
Project Scope
In this industrial area north of Sihanoukville, parents work in factories (mostly shoes, beer, clothes) for a few dollars per day. Although there are government schools in the village, young children stay home to take care of the babies, and miss school. It has never be so important for children of Cambodia to study, in order to adapt to the increasingly difficult job market and avoid following the wrong path.
In the small Klang Leu village, Anne and Jacques, residents of Siahoukville, were compelled to act. They tirelessly raised money from friends and relatives, received medecine from hospitals, and uniforms from donations. Along with the challenges of language, cooperation with local government and police, they undertook the challenges of:
- purchase trash cans and pay the municipality to collect them. Children do not play with trash any longer.
- design and build proper sanitation facilities. Prior to their community bathroom, the situation was very unhealthy.
- Create and run a small nursery to take care of the young ones.
- Hire and pay 2 nurses to take care of the children.
- Regularly raise money to purchase milk, clothes, uniforms.
- Take basic medical care of the children or bring them to hospitals as needed.
Some of the children from the Monika nursery.
Current State
The Global Roots and its service corps donated $1,000 and 2 days of labor to build an extention to the nursery.
Financials
Global Roots donated $1,000 and 2 days of labor to Monika nursery.
Video
This video is a thank you message from Jacques to Global Roots.
Contributors
Global Roots service corps:
- Ben Broadbent
- Travis Gearhart
- Francesco Franchin
- Clarkie Crawford
- Patrick Firouzian
- Chankui Heat
Project Director:
- Rick Montgomery
- Patrick Firouzian
Project managers and lead volunteers:
- Patrick Firouzian
- Travis Gearhart
Camera and editing:
more photos of this mission here.
Help us stop the exploitation of children in major Southeast Asian urban centers!
Our Director has researched the subject of street children extensively (his life was threatened in Bangkok’s soi Cowboy when he interviewed a girl who had been kidnapped from a village in China) and believes that the conditions for these unfortunate children is only getting even worse.
We are running out of time. Wealthy foreigners are buying up children as fast as they can (from unaware parents who are told their children are going away to work in factories) for the thriving sex markets of major S.E. Asian urban centers.
Please help us set up and staff a new home in Cambodia so that we can get these helpless children out of harm's way.
Please email Rick if you are interested in helping Cambodian children:
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