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Hope for Cambodian Children [in Stung Meanchey]
ABC News (USA)
It is hot and humid and the stench of the Steung Meanchey garbage dump in Cambodia's capital of Phnom Penh is unbearable and inescapable. It is hard to believe people live there. However, many children have no choice but to forage through the waste for recyclables that earn them 25 to 75 cents a day for a bowl of rice. (Margaret Conley/ ABC News)
Neeson first discovered the Steung Meanchey garbage dump during a "first class backpacking trip," while staying at Phnom Penh's luxe Raffles Hotel. Neeson was in between jobs -- president of 20th Century Fox International and head of Sony Pictures' international marketing. However, the site had a lasting impression on the Hollywood executive and he packed his bags and left Tinseltown in 2003 to make a difference. (Margaret Conley/ ABC News)
The second Cambodia Children's Fund facility, CCF2, offers a safe environment exclusively for girls, many of whom have been subjected to domestic and sexual abuse. Neeson calls the facility his "pride and joy." (Margaret Conley/ ABC News)
"The problem is, how do you say no?" Neeson asked rhetorically. He said that when he visits the site children follow him around saying, "Please take me to school." (Margaret Conley/ ABC News)
Over the last four years, Neeson, shown at left, and his team have opened three facilities -- CCF, CCF2 and CCF3 -- that aid impoverished children by providing comprehensive educational programs, vocational training and health care. The majority of the kids live in-house, learning computer skills, English and local Khmer songs and dance. (Margaret Conley/ ABC News)
CCF also teaches vocational skills including food hygiene and production at Star Bakery, where nutrient-enhanced breads and pastries are made to improve nutrition in local communities. Children also learn how to make trendy-looking, yet practical bags made out of recycled flour and sugar sacks. The bags have been well received in the United States, with all proceeds going to CCF. (Margaret Conley/ ABC News)
It is hot and humid and the stench of the Steung Meanchey garbage dump in Cambodia's capital of Phnom Penh is unbearable and inescapable. It is hard to believe people live there. However, many children have no choice but to forage through the waste for recyclables that earn them 25 to 75 cents a day for a bowl of rice. (Margaret Conley/ ABC News)
Neeson first discovered the Steung Meanchey garbage dump during a "first class backpacking trip," while staying at Phnom Penh's luxe Raffles Hotel. Neeson was in between jobs -- president of 20th Century Fox International and head of Sony Pictures' international marketing. However, the site had a lasting impression on the Hollywood executive and he packed his bags and left Tinseltown in 2003 to make a difference. (Margaret Conley/ ABC News)
The second Cambodia Children's Fund facility, CCF2, offers a safe environment exclusively for girls, many of whom have been subjected to domestic and sexual abuse. Neeson calls the facility his "pride and joy." (Margaret Conley/ ABC News)
"The problem is, how do you say no?" Neeson asked rhetorically. He said that when he visits the site children follow him around saying, "Please take me to school." (Margaret Conley/ ABC News)
Over the last four years, Neeson, shown at left, and his team have opened three facilities -- CCF, CCF2 and CCF3 -- that aid impoverished children by providing comprehensive educational programs, vocational training and health care. The majority of the kids live in-house, learning computer skills, English and local Khmer songs and dance. (Margaret Conley/ ABC News)
CCF also teaches vocational skills including food hygiene and production at Star Bakery, where nutrient-enhanced breads and pastries are made to improve nutrition in local communities. Children also learn how to make trendy-looking, yet practical bags made out of recycled flour and sugar sacks. The bags have been well received in the United States, with all proceeds going to CCF. (Margaret Conley/ ABC News)
2 comments:
If Cambodia was a better-run country, these kids would not be here. They deserve better. They know nothing other than being kids with a hungry stomach. I am not proud of my government.
Is this your government? It is not representing me therefore it is not my government. JJ. This is what Billions of dollars of assistant money ended up at, more poverty and garbages, in the handy works of the Thugs. Picture worth a thousand words, seeing them with your own eyes are heart breakings. Few diplomats and representatives applaused this Thugs government for their efforts and achievement. What the hell is going on? Are they playing appeasing game for their chess match with China and let these kids die?
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