By Gemma Marshall | Donor Relations Manager
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
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