In Phnom Penh, 10,000 children spend their days on the streets picking through trash. They are subject to physical and moral violence of all kinds:
illnesses, prostitution, drugs... The Cambodian government is not able to cope
Around Phnom Penh, 2 entirely volunteer people travel the countryside to distribute aid to children in villages that are too far away and not large enough for large NGOs. They provide help and care to children
The children of Kampong Krabey village forgotten by NGOs. This village has never received any help of any kind. These children only eat every other day and look for their protein in water fleas and other insects.
In the careers. We find children with deep, infected wounds caused by shards from the stones they break. We must clean and dress these wounds. The protective glasses that we offer them, their primary purpose which was to protect their eyes from stone shards, have been diverted and benefit the farmers who thus protect themselves from dust during rice threshing.
Entire families from the countryside are looking for a means of subsistence in this open-air dump and its pestilential odor. For half a dollar a day, they work night and day in this swamp of rotting garbage. will never get out of it. Often suffering from serious illnesses, they do not have the means to treat themselves
The school celebration begins with a small raffle for the 100 kindergarten children, where we put toys donated by members of the association as prizes. Then follows a distribution of kits and pens to the 460 children and 10 teachers of the school.
Action aimed at the elderly.
After the children, we also help isolated elderly people who no longer have any family to support them and without resources. We distribute rice to some of them and check their state of health..
Distribution to each schoolchild of clothing, 15kg of rice, 2kg of noodles, 1 liter of soy sauce, 1 liter of fish sauce, 1kg of powdered sugar, a pair of flip-flops, notebooks, pens and colored pencils. Every day, the children walk 2 hours barefoot through the fields to come to school
We responded to the emergency by carrying out 4 rice distributions and financing the maintenance of the school, but in addition, we organized a party in this school for the 460 students. It seems important to us, for once, not to make a difference between children in extreme distress and children in distress. Although we have to make a choice during the vital rice distributions between the months of July and November,
The Mother Marie orphanage in Dak Lak is a small, unpretentious orphanage without much means but very useful to the population.
We haven't really provided any major help but it holds an important place in our heart because our association is based there.
In the Phnom Penh landfill, kids arrive at 5 a.m. to throw themselves under the trucks emptying their dumpsters. The smell is pestilential, there is nothing comparable. During their lunch break between 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. we will take the opportunity to give them a small meal, the composition of the meal varies depending on the means we have to buy them, we treat their wounds because these children often have nasty wounds. We also buy clothes for children under 10, as very young children are often naked.
There are now a worrying number of children suffering from typhoid. This disease, which in our world is easily treatable, becomes a catastrophe in these villages and many of these children will not recover from it due to lack of means. The cause of this epidemic is an insect found in the fruits that children eat.
