
Meet Kosal. He’s small for his age, but he’s got a big smile. He lives in Phnom Penh in a tiny shack with his mom and her boyfriend – and recently, a very little baby.
“I think I’m really lucky,” Kosal told our social worker. “Although we are very poor, I know my mom loves me.”
Kosal’s [...]
A little over a year ago, we met a family near Blum. The father had abandoned them, leaving mum, a street sex worker, to try to keep herself and her 9-month old baby alive.
She was far behind on rent and her baby was malnourished because she’d been stretching her son’s milk (sex workers here often [...]
'Daddy' happily telling Beautiful Flowers that milk is on the way
Three months ago, a young sex working mother gave birth to a baby girl. Her mother named her little daughter ‘Beautiful flowers’ in Khmer.
One morning, the family next door to her in the slums heard non-stop crying from the rented shack where the mother [...]