Helping Change the World for Children in Rural Cambodia

Children are the innocent victims of the most drastic consequences of poverty. In Cambodia, thousands of children die each year of preventable and treatable disease and it is not uncommon for a child to die of complications from respiratory infections, diarrhea, and diseases which are practically eradicated in the more developed countries.

In this impoverished and battered country, the mortality statistics are earthshaking:

• 15% of Cambodian children die before the age of 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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Couple’s Quest to Help Kids in South Asia
by Elaine O’Connor

The Province Sunday
“British Columbians without Borders Blog” -Saturday 27 September 2008
Funding the Future in South Asia

Vancouver’s Nina Bains Cassils and her husband John love to travel. But they want to be more than tourists.
That’s why, after visiting developing countries in Asia for more than a decade they decided to add philanthropy to their sightseeing. Inspired by admirable people they met, they began to donate to causes they encountered.

In 1998, they made their first donation to an orphanage in northwest Thailand called Moo Ban Dek. Since then, they’ve traveled to South East Asia every year, for up to six weeks at a time, to visit projects, connect with local charities, distribute funding and check in on the people they have helped. Now they are funding 16 projects through their CW Asia Fund (named after main contributing families, the Cassils and the Wettsteins of Calgary). The Fund partners with local non-governmental organizations in India, Myanmar, Thailand and Cambodia working on clean water, education, orphanages, health care, youth vocational training and income generation and nutrition.

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CW Asia Fund flies Canadian products into southern Myanmar

CW Asia Fund is on the leading-edge of Myanmar relief efforts with Canadian product donations delivered right into the ravaged region where help is needed most. CW Asia Fund delivered over 8,000 protein bars plus bottles of Vitamin C, donated by Jamieson Laboratories, plus other donated food products and medicines into Myanmar to provide assistance to malnourished children and adults.

When the CW Asia Fund contacted us, we agreed immediately to provide assistance, said Rob Ricci, Vice President of Marketing, Jamieson Laboratories. The CW Asia Fund is uniquely able to provide assistance directly where it is most needed right in to Myanmar’s worst hit areas. We encourage Canadian food and health companies to contact the CW Asia Fund to see how they can also provide support.

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The goal of M’Lop Tapang’s Health Care Program has always been to ensure free access to medical care for every vulnerable child in Sihanoukville. Our program objectives are to:

• provide efficient, comprehensive, holistic medical care to the children & families of MT
• provide medical care with compassion, empathy and respect for the individual patient
• educate families about basic hygiene and prevention from illness
• educate and empower children to better manage their own health and their family’s health

Click here for M’Lop Tapang’s 2007 Medical Report