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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EDUCATION

• The number of children using the centre daily has more than doubled, with well over 300 children coming to the centre daily, over last year.
• Over 220 children studying full time in five classrooms in our special education program representing a 100% increase in 12 months.
• Over 100 children participating in art, IT, English and sport activities.
• All students because of lack of money, child-rearing responsibilities or simple parental neglect are not ready to attend or not able to afford public schools.
• For most of these children this is their first opportunity for any schooling.

IT TRAINING

• IT training represents an important component of our youth programs.
• The existing IT room has 10 computers.
• Over 120 children use it weekly.

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