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School is Thida's dream

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

Urgent: A pregnant mom needs help

Three children and a baby on the way, and desperately afraid for the future

The family needs USD173.70 for the next three months to cover rice, food, toiletries, utilities and some new clothes. Please click here to donate.

Three children and a baby on the way, and desperately afraid for the future

A heavily-pregnant mother came to the Riverkids office last week, and quietly asked for help.

Su* and her [...]

The volunteer's heart translates across languages

50 cents earned in 3 hours could barely compensate for the calories burned and is still insufficient for the family.

Traveling to Phnom Penh in May 2010 wasn’t just my first trip to Cambodia; for me, the trip was my first experience outside of the United States. Although I was excited to expand my world view and to provide much-needed assistance to the impoverished local community, I was worried about how much of an impact [...]