Provide women and girls education in Cambodia

Each year at the end of November and begining of December we run a 16 day campaign focussed on Eliminating Violence Against Women (EVAW). The campaign is part of the wider UN EVAW campaign and our focus is to engage the commnity in Siem Reap. We promote discussions on women and childrens rights. discussions on equality, parenting workshops - which support parents in finding non violent ways to discipline children, and peaceful community activities. At the same time we rn an online fundraising campaign in order to support our year long work on eliminating violence. A big thank you to all of you who have donated! 

This year the campaign ran from 25th November to 10th December and in that time we: engaged the community in discussions around violence and seeking support; helpd counselling sessions for those in need; hosted a meditation afternoon for people to recenter, learn to be more mindfl and manage their emotions; held a football competition for all our local NGO partners to celebrate our solidarity and work together; hosted a tree planting day and a litter picking day to emphasise the importance of our environment and how we should look after each other and the world we live in; we closed the week with a session on mental health hosted by monks at Wat Damnak. We heard about the power of peace and learnt about mindfulness, and ended the day by offering 100 alms to the monks. Peace and love are essential to a future free from violence.  In addition, we ran an online fundraising campaign, hosted a wine and cheese fundraising evening at the Park Hyatt Siem Reap, entered a small team of fundraisers in the Angkor Wat Half Marathon and our fundraising reached around $6000 - with funds still coming in - for our work on eliminating violence and supporting women - thank you if you kindly donated!

Please enjoy the attached photos of our activities and if you would like to learn more about our work please watch our attached video.

With all best wishes for the festive season and a wonderful 2020!

The WRC team!

Links:

• WRC video on our work - especially domestic violence
• WRC facebook page
• WRC website

Dear Friend,

Thank you for your continued support of WRC - it truly means the world to us and to the women and men that use our center. Yes, that's right, men too! 

Engaging men in discussions about gender is crucial to the fight for gender equality. Our Men's Coffee Talks bring together men from the community to share experiences and learn about the roles of fathers and husbands in creating a positive family dynamic.

So far this year we have held two Men’s Coffee Talks, where we bring together men from across the community for informal discussions about gender. The casual nature of these discussions makes it easier to talk about difficult topics, such as the challenges men face, the roles of fathers in family and family communication. The talks are facilitated by our Social Workers who are on hand to give advice, support, and insights. It is important for our Social Workers to attend these talks too in order to learn from the experiences of men in our community and improve our programs. Eight men have participated in coffee talks so far this year with really positive results.

“I shared my parenting approach to the group: bring my kid to school, take them from the school, play
with my kids and advise them in the good word to do good things.” - Dara, Men’s Coffee Talk Participant

You can see more about our work with men and how that impacts the community as a whole in our Mid Year Report 2019 and our video - both links below the final picture.

Thank you once again for your support and enabling us to empower women and men to create a more equal understanding here in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Best wishes,

KONG Vanthat

Executive Director

Links:

• Mid year report 2019
• WRC video