Gender Equality Cambodia Project #10291

Provide women and girls education in Cambodia

by Women's Resource Center

Provide women and girls education in Cambodia

Project Report | Aug 5, 2020
How WRC are delivering workshops during COVID

By Gemma Marshall | Donor Relations Manager

Delivering online workshops

Thank you for supporting WRC and investing in the education and life skills of Cambodian women!

As you know, our workshops are usually run in person in our centre, schools and in the community. Due to COVID19, since February when the schools closed and March when our centre closed, we have not been able to deliver in person workshops to keep participants and staff safe. Over the last few months, we have been working hard behind the scenes to find 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 report that we recently ran our first online workshop via zoom on ‘Women’s Health – Menstruation and Hygiene’ to 24 young adults and ‘Positive Parenting’ to 11 parents. We have also produced a Positive Parenting manual for distribution in August. In addition, we have filmed a financial literacy video and shared this online (via youtube and facebook) for women to understand more about controlling their finances at this tricky time. We have lots more planned and will keep you updated!

You may also be interested to know that during COVID 19 we have been providing counselling to women and their families via the phone, in the last few weeks alone the team received 30 new cases and supported 22 women with ongoing issues. Most of these client’s concerns are around having no food, domestic violence (which has increased 300%) and financial issues – especially for those with debts and no income. We have also been supplying 50-100 families a month with emergency food an hygiene packages and additional support depending on their needs.

Thank you for your gift to WRC – we could not have achieved so much, and supported so many community members now and into the future without you!

Best wishes,

Gemma and the WRC team.

Mother and child collecting supplies

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Jun 16, 2020
How WRC is supporting women during COVID

By Gemma Marshall | Donor Relations Manager

Working with partners, HBF, to plan next steps

Dear Friend of WRC,

We hope you and your family are welll!

Today we wanted to share an update with you about how we are supporting the women and families we work with in Siem Reap.

As you know the Cambodian economy is hugely reliant on tourism, especially in our city of Siem Reap. As tourism numbers fell and people lost jobs due to COVID19 many families were plummeted into unexpected poverty. We have worked closely with our community to understand what their current needs are and how we can support them deeply at this time. We surveyed 100 families and learned that most of them feared both COVID and hunger, many were suffering acute stress and mental health issues and there has been a rise in domestic abuse - which is not uncommon when everyone is feeling pressure and we are doing our best to support those suffering. We have been working hard to provide counselling and emergency supplies for famiies in need and so far have been able to reach 115 families.

We are also focussing on developing new online resources so that our workshops and learning can continue. We will be sharing short videos on facebook and other online platforms and hope to be able to conduct online workshops with beneficiariaes soon. The team are learning new skills to create videos and facilitate online workhsops and we are working out ways to reach those who have poor internet connections or a lack of equipment. We are looking forward to sharing our exsisting workshops and new resources around COVID19 and lifeskills for those facing unemployment soon.

Thank you for your continued support it really does help us reach those who need it.

Gemma and the WRC team

Support from Community Ambassador

Must keep remembering our hygiene actions

Conducting a needs assessment

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Apr 21, 2020
Providing support to Cambodian Women at this time

By Gemma Marshall | Donor Relations Manager

Supporting our community with food supplies

Dear Friend,

Thank you so much for supporting Women's Resource Center with your gift. We wanted to send you an update on our work during International Women's Month and how we are continuing to work in our community at this time.

International Women's Day was on 8th March and was such a fun day for our community to celebrate together. Almost 100 people came including students, families and children. We shared our acheivements over the last year (see our annual report attached), held a fashion show for the children and women to get involved in and enjoy, shared edication around gender rights and shared some clothes that have been donated. What a great day - we hope you enjoy the attached photos.

As March rolled on physical distancing became implemented due to COVID19 and we were forced to close our doors to the public, and advise the staff team to work from home. Despite these challenges our team are more determined than ever to support the women and families that we work with and have been phoning those who need support to check on them, giving out emergency parcels of food and hygiene supplies (photos attached) and working on a series of short online workshops to ensure we are still delivering informaiton about positive parenting, financial lteracy, womens rights and gender, women's health and other topics that the community need at this time. We are staying positive, finding ways to deliver our mission and hope you are too!

Thank you for your support, it really makes a difference and allows us to keep supporting our community, even in difficult circmstances.

All the very best to you and your families at this time.

Gemma and the WRC team

Taking temperatures to check health

International Women's Day, Kimsan (social worker)

International Women's Day, girls enjoying lunch

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