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Send Kosal to school!

I love my mom and want to help her but I wish to go to school more often

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 mother's life, a baby's death

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 [...]

A sick baby bounced back to health

8 months in Baby Bellies and Lucky is now healthy, active and chubby.

“Lucky” is a baby girl in Riverkids’ Baby Bellies Programme. Her mother is a sex worker in Bung Kak community. When we saw her the first time, she was very thin, weak and sick because she took only what the mother could [...]

An abandoned baby finds a new home

'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 [...]

Update on the two mothers and their babies

Our Community Nurse handing the milk powder to the family - Cheers!

Our Community Nurse handing the milk powder to the family. Thanks to all our donors for supporting Riverkids’ Baby Bellies and the chubby, healthy and happy babies!

The two mothers we wrote about in I give up – take my baby are now employed in safer jobs!

One has found work at a garment factory, and [...]