Helping Cambodian Children at M'Lop Tapang

Hello from M’Lop Tapang,

Just a quick thank you to say how much we appreciate your donations and encouragement in helping us support vulnerable Cambodian children and their families here in Sihanoukville.

Now more than ever, some of these families need M’Lop Tapang’s assistance and your generosity is making sure we are able to do just that.  As like in other parts of the world, many parents here have lost their jobs or had their incomes reduced significantly because of the COVID-19 situation. Your donations are helping us to provide emergency food, hygiene supplies and other items to those local families most in need.  In the last few weeks, with your help, we have distributed emergency supplies to more 450 families. Many of these families we have had to deliver supplies to more than once already and we know this will continue.

Again, thank you so very much for generosity and concern.

All the best.  Take care and stay safe,

Roth Chanphalkun (Kun)

Co-Director, M’Lop Tapang

Links:

• M'Lop Tapang COVID19 Response Activities
• M'Lop Tapang's 2019 Annual Report

Hello from sunny Cambodia!

We wanted to thank you again for your generous support and donations.  It is incredibly generous of you!  I know there are so many other ways you could be spending your money – we really do feel very lucky and very honored that you support the work we do here.

M’Lop Tapang regularly works with thousands of disadvantaged Cambodian children and youth.  Your donations help us to make sure they are getting the services they need.   One of those that your support has helped is Sinat*, a young girl who graduated from high school this year, the first child in her family to do so.  

Sinat’s family had moved to Sihanoukville from the poor rural countryside when Sinat was just a young girl. The parents moved in hopes of making a better life for themselves and their children. Sinat had been attending school for a few years before moving here but stopped when the family could not afford to continue to send her to school.  In 2011, with the support of M’Lop Tapang’s “Back to School” program, Sinat, who was 13 years old at the time, reentered the public school system at the Grade 4 level. The “Back to School Program” assists families who cannot afford to send their children to public school. Although public school is officially free for all Cambodian children, families are still required to pay for school uniforms and supplies. For many of the poorest families, these costs prevent them from sending their children to school.

Over the last 8 years Sinat worked hard at her studies but is wasn’t always easy. “I really wanted to quit when I was in Grade 11, but after talking to the community counsellor I decided to stay in school and I’m glad it did.” This year Sinat graduated from high school, the first person in her family to do so. She is now working as a teacher and continues her own education at University, which she is paying for herself. Sinat also has two younger siblings, a brother and a sister, who are still in local public schools with the support of M’Lop Tapang.

*name and photo changed for confidentiality

From all of us here at M’Lop Tapang, thank you so much for your support and encouragement.

Wishing you all the best,

Roth Chanphalkun (Kun)
Co-Director, M’Lop Tapang

Links:

• M'Lop Tapang's 2019 Year End Video
• Child Rights News Team: Environment (Part 1)
• Child Rights News Team: Environment (Part 2)