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Child welfare Shelter, a home, a job…so many alternatives to deprivation |
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1st step: stabilizing the child Outreach in the Streets Educators from our temporary reception centers go out into the streets of Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and Poïpet looking for children. To initiate contact, the educators offer to treat the children's wounds, cut their nails and just listen to them. This gains trust and furthers dialogue. After several encounters, some children decide to follow the educators to a temporary center. Reception in a temporary center Four temporary reception centers provide the street children with some stability and allow them to find their bearings and get used to the rules of society. A team of educators listens, advises, gives medical care and offers classes in moral education, maths and Khmer language. It's about understanding the children and what pushes them onto the streets in order to help them find an alternative. Children stay three to six months in these centers while they stabilize themselves and the educators study their family situation. For more information, see our 2003 annual report on the program for street children available only in French and in PDF format (500 KB)* |
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2nd step: reintegrating the child into a warm and stable environment Priority is placed on reintegrating the child into his own family. Our staff identify, locate and meet the family, if there is one. If needed, a support program is started to help the parents accept their child back home. Reinsertion of the child may sometimes be impossible if the family is unsuitable or no longer exists. In this case, he'll be welcomed into one of our support programs, where he'll live in the care of a "new family" until he achieves complete autonomy: - Three protection centers welcome about 40 children who are orphaned, abandoned or who have fled their families.They go to nearby public schools and participate actively in the centers' activities (including housework, errands, gardening and cultural activities). The objective is to ensure the children develop and blossom on their way to independence with all the affection and attention they need. For more information, see our 2003 annual report on the Takhmao protection center available only in French and in PDF format (489 KB)* Meet Bunthoeun and Lim Loeun ! - Nine family houses each offer stability for 10 very young or traumatized children. Some have been brought back from Thailand after being taken there by traffickers. Numbers are limited to create a true family environment. Supported by a couple of Khmer parents, the children experience the gentlessness of family life and can confidently build a future on new foundations. For more information, see our 2005 annual report on the Sihanoukville family house Number 1 available only in French and in PDF format (2MB)* and discover the story of Noy. |
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3rd step: preparing the child for a productive future - Each year, maritime vocational training in Sihanoukville offers about twenty teenagers the opportunity to reintegrate into Khmer society by learning a trade. - Moreover, Krousar Thmey steers teenagers towards vocational training offered by other NGOs, in accordance with the students' interests and abilities. |
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- Krousar Thmey's Poïpet village offers help to those at risk. It aids single women with no means of support, and their children. 20 families, and nearly 100 children, have received the means of regaining a normal life (housing, land, tools…) and are living independently. In recognition for the work we do in favour of the single women of Poïpet since 1995, Krousar Thmey received the "Prix des Droits de l’Homme de la République Française" in Novembre 2003. For more information, see our 2003 annual report on the Poïpet village in PDF format (745 KB)* - Krousar Thmey collaborated in the creation of ECPAT - Cambodia (End Child Prostitution, Abuses and Trafficking), which brings together NGOs fighting against child prostitution. Krousar Thmey also instigated a programme to promote child welfare in Cambodia. - Campaign against trafficking and prostitution : Child prostitution and trafficking are worrying realities in Cambodia. Krousar Thmey thinks it's important to draw people's attention to this and make them aware of their responsibility to protect their children. To this end, 70,000 posters have been put up all over Cambodia and a theatrical tour on the subject launched to increase the campaign's impact. Every second Sunday, 40 young people from Sisophon travel to a village in Banteay Mean Chey to perform traditional dances and a theatre piece warning villagers about trafficking and prostitution. |
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* PDF: If you do not have Acrobat Reader yet, you can download it at this address. |
