Kosal, 11 years, a new homeless boy in our project

Kosal is the a homeless boy. He is 11 years old and I met him and his family for the first time 3 years ago, at that time he was 8 years old and still running naked around at the temple area and I bought him and his brothers some new cloths. I meet him and his family every time I visit Cambodia.

He is the oldest son in a homeless family with 5 kids (1-11 years old). They came from the country side to find a better life in Phnom Penh, his father has a rickshaw and his mother is a bagger. Usually they stay in the temple area without any belongings and the kids don’t go to school. Lately the mother took the small kids back to her village and left them there, probably at her mother, as they were sick.

Kosal can now go to school and get, for the first time in his life, a chance to be like other children.

We donated his uniform, shoes, bag, books and other school expenses and we will also buy him some food. Yos will be his protector, buy the things he need and look after him.

I don’t know if it will be possible for him to concentrate on studying and making homework as he don’t have a home, he just live out side under a tree, but I want to give him a chance and I wish him the best.

His father rent his rickshaw so I have a plan to donate a bike to him so he can save the rent and have more money to buy food for the kids in the future.

Dany & Rachana, two new brothers in our project

Dany and Rachana, 12 & 10 years old brothers, doing 4. &  5. grade in public school. Live as homeless in the temple area together with the parents and 5 years old little sister. They are still very lucky, they have good parents and both parents earn some money for food, the three kids looks healthy. The father has a motorbike so he transport people for money and the mother is doing some assembling work at home for a shop in the market. They are coming from the country side hoping to find a better life in Phnom Penh. They seem to be very united family, the father help the mother in her job in the evening time and the kids are always around the parents. Both boys go to public school and my help to them will be the payment of daily English lessons. Saru will be the contact person to them and he did the shopping yesterday, spending 38 USD buying them new uniforms, school bags and new cloths.

They do not stay inside the building but outside. The have only one big bed which they all 5 share in the night time. The cover the bed in the night like you see on the last photo.. You can see their cloths hanging on the left side of the bed. This is a home for 5 persons but they are still more lucky than others in Cambodia as they got small jobs and food and most important, they are helping eachother.

Bye Bye Cambodia

01-03-2010 Shopping with Cheng

01-03-2010 Sopal, new boy in our project

Sopal is 11 years old, much underfeed, his mother died while giving birth to her next baby and left 4 small kids. His father left the kids with the grandmother and went back to his first wife.

The kids ended after a while in an orphan were the other three are still living. Sopal did not thrive in the orphan so his uncle took him to the temple where the uncle lives as a monk.

Borin and I took him to the market, bought him medicine for parasite, new cloths, soap, washing powder and so on. In the future will Borin be his contact person and buy him a hot meal every day and pay his daily English lessons.

It is difficult to explain how happy Sopal was for our help and we wish him good luck in his new chance in life.

28-02-2010 On a day tour

Arrival 27-02-2010