Her first days at Riverkids, learning to be a kid again after working on the street with her homeless family
I remember watching Thida play jumprope with some other little girls more than five years ago. Two of the girls she was playing with that day were sold by their families that year.
Thida laughed when [...]
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 [...]
S. showing quick progress in class
We received a wonderful surprise this month! The granny who pulled her grandson out of our Education Programme in 2008 and vanished with him, suddenly turned up at Blum in May to ask us to re-enroll him.
Two years ago, this granny’s then 10-year-old orphan, S. was studying in [...]
Riverkids soldiered on in November making progress in lots of areas and also facing challenges.
One key goal of Riverkids is to provide its children with education to make them less susceptible to trafficking—through its own schools and centres as well as through Cambodian state schools. Enrollment remained constant—with just over 20 children registered in both [...]
Monthly Report (Oct 2009)
21 pages, 164kb. Covers all our Cambodia programs in Phnom Penh for October 2009.
Summary
An ongoing goal of Riverkids is to integrate all of its children of school-going age into Cambodian state school. We are proud to report that by Oct 2009, 95 percent of our children were registered for state school, with [...]
Make Thida a teacher
Send Kosal to school!