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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 [...]

Choir performance in Logos International School

20 Riverkids choir children standing proudly on stage to perform

20 Riverkids choir children standing proudly on stage to perform

On 21 May 2010, Riverkids had the privilege to put 20 of our choir children on the stage of Logos International School to perform. Thanks to Ms. Roberts who made this possible.

The children practiced very hard for that day and it was evident that stronger [...]

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 [...]

A child beggar and his granny returned to Riverkids

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 [...]