At the Center for Friends Without A Border (Friends Center), visitors will have a unique opportunity to learn more about the impact of Cambodia’s recent history and the dramatic progress being made today through the medical care, education and outreach programs provided by Friends.
The Friends Center symbolizes a nexus of caring for the community and of ecological sustainability. The design of the center represents a gesture of openness that invites visitors to connect with the mission and learn about the projects of Friends, while allowing Angkor Hospital for Children to maintain the dignity and privacy of the children and their families.
The award-winning design of the Friends Center was developed by the internationally renowned architectural firm, Cook + Fox. The design and construction were grounded in the cultural belief that there is an inherent link between the health of Cambodia’s people and its environment. The Friends Center itself demonstrates an ethos of cultural, economic, and environmental sustainability, honoring the Khmer legacy of wise stewardship during the Angkor period. Rainwater is captured for reuse, bamboo louvers and roof overhangs are angled to the path of the sun for temperature control, and the roof is engineered for solar photovoltaic power. Renewable biofuel derived from the jatropha plant will be used to help generate the power necessary to operate the Friends Center.
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Five weeks passed very quickly at the Angkor Hospital for Children in Siem Reap, Cambodia. We were tasked with producing a report on malnutrition, and thus sifted through about 150 patients’ charts to gather data. Our supervisor, David Shoemaker, also dispatched us often to follow-up on patients and, in the process, to see the ‘real Cambodia’: a conservative society revolving around the family and the field. It was a world apart from our native Canada; when we reported that a child, admitted to AHC in 2007 for malnutrition, had since been crushed to death by a cow, we were told that this happens frequently in Cambodia.
The chart review itself was equally fascinating. Written into the charts were family trees as large as they were complicated. The notes described murder, incomes below one dollar a month, fluctuating family sizes, appalling malnutrition, abandonment, and cases of HIV transmission via wet-nurses’ breast milk. And so, over five weeks, we were introduced to the private life of Cambodia.
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An Invitation to Help Change the World for Children in rural Cambodia
Help raise $2,500,000 the cost of construction, equipment and operations for 5 years.
A Naming Opportunity
Children suffer the most drastic consequences of poverty. In Cambodia thousands die each year of preventable and treatable disease, where it is not uncommon for a child to die of complications from respiratory infections, diarrhea, and diseases practically eradicated in the more-developed world:
- 15% of Cambodian children, or 60,000, die before age 5
- 35% of Cambodian children are not immunized for polio, measles, or diphtheria
- 45% of Cambodian children under 5 are moderately to severely underweight
- 12,000 Cambodian children under the age of 15 live with HIV/AIDS
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Thank you to all the staff and supporters who helped to make 2007 another exciting year at Angkor Hospital for Children (AHC). Following are a few highlights of some of the things we accomplished together in 2007.
Click here for the complete January 2008 Monthly Report from AHC.
Casino Royale was a success, quick calculation is $20,000+, The event went smoothly attended by a wonderful group of people all motivated to support the Angkor Hospital for Children in Siem Reap Cambodia. It has been such a pleasure working on this event most of all meeting so many wonderful new and very gracious people…. perhaps start planning an event for next year would be the order of the day. Hosted by Tanya & Bevan
