Gifts that keep giving

Dear Friend,

We hope this finds you well.

Thank you for supporting the Women's Resource Center here in Cambodia around this time last year. 2020 was not the year any of us expected, but we have continued to find new and innovative ways to support our community here in Siem Reap. 

We have worked closely with the community to understand their changing needs and to respond to them. This response has included emergency food and hygiene supplies, plus seeds and chicks for them to have a more long term sustainable food source.

In terms of the support you have provided for workshops through 2020 we have been accutely aware that whilst in person workshops are difficult right now we still need to support the women in our community with financial literacy, women's health, women's rights and eqality and positive parenting. We have managed to switch most of our workshops to an online format and ensure this material is still delivered. There is no community transmission of COVID-19 in Cambodia currently, but we are all still being very careful. Due to this some of the women are able to come to the center to collect supplies from us and at these times we have taken the opportunity to do short, socially distanced workshops (pictured). 

Thank you once again for your support.

Gemma and the WRC team.

Links:

• WRC website

Dear Friend,

Thank you for your previous support for Women's Resource Center and our life skills workshops. As we are in unusual times we thought you might like an update... 

Due to COVID19 our office and workshop space was forced to close back in March. Sadly, as Cambodia is very reliant on tourism, and the borders are currently closed to tourists, many of our community are suffering with poverty. At the end of March, we mobilised emergency support to give out food and hygiene packages. We moved our counselling service to the phone in order to support people emotionally and with practical advice, and we started to explore how we could deliver workshops to our community to keep up vital learning about life skills. 

Since April we have been working hard behind the scenes to work out the best ways to reach the women and girls we support with our workshops. There has been some capacity building for staff, investing in new platforms and technology, and work withing the community to ensure our beneficiaries could access online platforms and receive the information we have to share. We are delighted to share that we recently ran our first online workshops via zoom on 'Women's Health - Menstruation / Hygiene' to 24 young adults and 'Positive Parenting' to 11 parents and are looking forward to delivering more over the coming months.

Thank you for supporting our workshops, we will keep working hard to deliver them despite our current challenges as these life skills are crucial to the women in our community.

Best wishes,

Gemma and team

Links:

• WRC facebook page
• WRC website
• Annual Reports