$15 a month keeps a child safe and our Foster Mother busy
Two women came to us last week to say that they were giving up their babies. Exhausted, abandoned by their families and trapped in abusive work, they saw no hope except to give up their babies.
They could have gone to traffickers and sold [...]
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 [...]
We work with families in seven slums in Phnom Penh. We work inside or next to the slums because it’s no use trying to change people’s lives unless you’re willing to get right down next to them and know what their daily lives are like, to be a real neighbour.
Last week, some people in one [...]
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!