Update - February 2011

Hope for Cambodia Orphanage & Christian School on Lveasor Island – OP has done a lot here! Built a new boy’s dormitory for around $17,000. Built a new kitchen for around $8,000. Provided some second hand computers and a kindergarten teachers salary in 2009/2010. Provided monthly funds (currently) for rice for the 80 orphans/vulnerable children. Built two new classrooms at about $9,500 (in process now). Provided a water purification system & water tank at around $1,000. Provided about $2,000 for supplies for the orphans – mattresses, pillows, blankets, mosquito nets, mats

Update - June 2010

New Bedding for the Orphans Promise Home

Our OP Bloke in the Field, Tim, has been busy helping the Lvearsor Orphanage on behalf of OP. A friend of his in Australia donated the money for much needed bedding supplies for this orphanage that is busting at the seams. We have 74 orphans living with 6 mothers and 40 bunkbeds.

We bought 80 of each of the following supplies: pillows, blankets, mosquito nets, mats, mattress, pillow ocvers, mattress covers and towels. The most expensive item is a matress which costs $8.00 US, so a lot of items were bought for under $2,000. The dollar goes a long way in countries like Cambodia, I love the fact that we can do much for so little.

The children were thrilled to have mattresses and pillows, many of them for the first time.

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A country long fraught with internal strife, and an iron-handed dictator, Pol Pot whose regime in the 1970’s resulted in the death of 1.5 million Cambodians from execution, starvation and hardships left a devastating legacy.

Today, Cambodia is a much more stable country; however, poverty still has a strong hold on the rural population.

Due to its long history of war and deprivation, there is a large orphan population in Cambodia. An on-going problem that exists today is the existence of land mines left over from the war. They are responsible for a large number of deaths and dismemberments, especially for poor farmers in the agricultural areas.

Orphan’s Promise is working to help children in Cambodia through the Jesus School. Located in the center of a city dump, children are fed and educated here.

Many parents were reluctant to send their children to the school because they could earn about 75 cents a day scavenging in the dump. The school offered to pay the families 75 cents to allow the children to attend school.

Today, parents recognize the need for education, and have a hope for their children’s futures. One hundred-fifty children attend the Jesus School and Orphan’s Promise needs your monthly support to feed and educate these children.

Orphan’s Promise also supports a youth Recreation and Development Center in Pursat Province, the poorest in Cambodia.

We are also supporting an orphanage on Leavasor Island providing education in a partnership with local CBN staff. This island is populated almost entirely by abused women and children.

Major Issues:

• Orphans
• Infectious Disease degree of risk: very high
• HIV/ AIDS (over 100 new cases of HIV each day)
• Poverty
• Landmines