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Category: Familial Support

Kid’s Mother’s Health Battle

Julian November 24, 2024 0 Comments
From the beginning, one of our main goals has been providing health care and covering medical expenses for our students and families in need. Since health-related subjects are extremely personal, however, we have chosen never to post about these projects. Kid is 27 years old and works as a machine operator at one of Cambodia’s biggest steel and aluminum companies. After losing his father, Kid...

Zana Starts Primary School

Julian November 10, 2024 0 Comments
Since the inception of this organization almost four years ago, we have been supporting Dina, a single mother who grew up orphaned and without access to education, and her daughter Zana. With no qualifications to join the workforce and no one to look after her baby, we helped Dina with a variety of things throughout the years, including enrolling her daughter Zana in a local kindergarten program,...

Helping a Single Mother in Need

Julian August 31, 2024 0 Comments
There is a strong connection between poverty and gender. Women and children are at a much higher risk of sliding into extreme poverty due to a multitude of reasons, mainly the fact that developing countries like Cambodia don’t have any social welfare programs set in place to support those in need. Chanthou was five months pregnant with her second child when her husband left her. She suddenly...

Our Impact on Vannara’s Family

Julian July 21, 2024 0 Comments
Last year, we introduced you to the story of our student Vannara’s family. Vannara himself grew up separated from his mother in an orphanage but was able to reconnect with his remaining family members a few years ago. He soon came to learn that his estranged family, which includes his mother Pak, his younger sister Dany, his younger brother Ganya, and his nephew Reach, who became an orphan when...

A Family’s Business Venture

Julian April 28, 2024 0 Comments
After the Khmer Rouge regime in the late 70s, Cambodia was wiped out of most of its infrastructure and educational institutions. People who were educated or considered as such were actively targeted and executed during the genocide, leaving behind a traumatized and torn Cambodia, that has had to rebuild itself from scratch. This is the reason, why many people of that generation never had the...