Author: Nadia McGill
Source: Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International
Website: http://www.adra.org
SILVER SPRING, Md.-Cambodian youth are facing increased danger to their wellbeing as a result of the rapidly changing social norms that have created a marked rise in risky sexual behavior, sexual abuse, prostitution, and sex trafficking, says the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA).
To address this growing crisis, ADRA recently launched "Turn Up the Volume: Youth Advocacy for Reproductive Health" (TUV), a project that is being implemented in 12 communes in central and northern Cambodia in partnership with Management Sciences for Health (MSH), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Cambodian Government.
"Our goal is to advocate for youth services that are sustainable and environmentally friendly which are supported by health center staff and the community," said Ann Stickle, associate director for ADRA Cambodia.
Launched in January 2009, this two-year project is designed to empower Cambodian youth to fight exploitation and reduce their risk to these issues by building their leadership and advocacy skills and improving the quality and availability of reproductive health services in the community.
The Leadership Development Program provides training in youth advocacy, focusing on skills that boost self-confidence. Also offered are activities that identify and reduce threats to their own reproductive health.
"Through these activities, youth will receive the tools and social support they need to overcome the challenges they face on a daily basis," said Stickle.
By the end of the project in 2011, more than 54,000 people will benefit from this program, including 208 young people from the districts of Chomkar Leu and Steung Trong, and 52 government officials from the Ministry of Health (MOH), Ministry of Women's Affairs (MOWA), and Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sport (MOEYS).
ADRA's partnership with the Cambodian Ministry of Health will strengthen the promotion and utilization of youth-friendly reproductive health services through the various levels of government, ensuring that feedback gained from TUV's Youth Advocates is successfully integrated into the activities established by local Health Centers.
TUV has received funding totaling more than $358,000 from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), MSH, and ADRA International.
ADRA is a non-governmental organization present in 125 countries providing sustainable community development and disaster relief without regard to political or religious association, age, gender, race, or ethnicity.
For more information about ADRA, visit www.adra.org.
To address this growing crisis, ADRA recently launched "Turn Up the Volume: Youth Advocacy for Reproductive Health" (TUV), a project that is being implemented in 12 communes in central and northern Cambodia in partnership with Management Sciences for Health (MSH), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Cambodian Government.
"Our goal is to advocate for youth services that are sustainable and environmentally friendly which are supported by health center staff and the community," said Ann Stickle, associate director for ADRA Cambodia.
Launched in January 2009, this two-year project is designed to empower Cambodian youth to fight exploitation and reduce their risk to these issues by building their leadership and advocacy skills and improving the quality and availability of reproductive health services in the community.
The Leadership Development Program provides training in youth advocacy, focusing on skills that boost self-confidence. Also offered are activities that identify and reduce threats to their own reproductive health.
"Through these activities, youth will receive the tools and social support they need to overcome the challenges they face on a daily basis," said Stickle.
By the end of the project in 2011, more than 54,000 people will benefit from this program, including 208 young people from the districts of Chomkar Leu and Steung Trong, and 52 government officials from the Ministry of Health (MOH), Ministry of Women's Affairs (MOWA), and Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sport (MOEYS).
ADRA's partnership with the Cambodian Ministry of Health will strengthen the promotion and utilization of youth-friendly reproductive health services through the various levels of government, ensuring that feedback gained from TUV's Youth Advocates is successfully integrated into the activities established by local Health Centers.
TUV has received funding totaling more than $358,000 from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), MSH, and ADRA International.
ADRA is a non-governmental organization present in 125 countries providing sustainable community development and disaster relief without regard to political or religious association, age, gender, race, or ethnicity.
For more information about ADRA, visit www.adra.org.
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If you voted for CPP (Cambodian People's Party):
Also known as:
Communist People's Party
Khmer Rouge People's Party
Khmer Krorhorm People's Party
You're support the killing of 1.7 million innocent Khmer peoples in Cambodia.
You're support the killing of innocent men, women and children on March 30, 1997 in Cambodia.
You're support assassination of journalists in Cambodia.
You're support political assassination and killing in Cambodia.
You're support attempted assassination and murder of leader of the free trade union in Cambodia.
You're support corruption in Cambodia.
You're support murder of Piseth Pilika (Hun Sen's affaire).
You're support Hun Sen Regime burn poor people's house down to the ground and leave them homeless.
Hun Sen, Chea Sim and Heng Samrin was a former Khmer Rouge commanders.
Now, Hun Sen, Chea Sim and Heng Samrin are Khmer Rouge leaders, since their leader (Pol Pot) is dead.
From 1975 to 1979, these Khmer Rouge commanders responsible for killing 1.7 million innocent Khmer peoples in Cambodia.
From 1980 to present, these Khmer Rouge leaders responsible for killing innocent men, women and children on March 30, 1997, assassinated journalists, political assassination and killing, murder of Piseth Pilika (Hun Sen's affaire) and attempted assassinated and murder of leader of the free trade union in Cambodia.
When is the ECCC going to bring these three criminals to U.N. Khmer Rouge Tribunal?
Khmer Rouge Regime is a genocide organization.
Hun Sen Regime is a terrorist organization.
Hun Sen Bodyguards is a terrorist organization.
Hun Sen Death Squad is a terrorist organization.
Cambodian People's Party is a terrorist organization.
I have declare the current Cambodian government which is lead by the Cambodian People's Party as a terrorist organization.
Whoever associate with the current Cambodian government are associate with a terrorist organization.
Hun Sen's government committed:
Human Rights Abuses
Human Trafficking
Under Age Child Sex
Drugs Trafficking
Intimidation
Death Threat
Assassination
Murder
Killing
Terrorism
Mass Eviction, by burn poor people's house down to the ground and leave them homeless.
Land Grabbing
Corruptions
Injustice
Illegal Firearms
Illegal Logging
Steal Votes
Violates the Constitution
These are the Trade Marks of Hun Sen Regime.
Under Hun Sen Regime, no criminals that has been committed murder and all other crimes within Hun Sen's government ever been brought to justice.
Information change without notice as it become available.
I love Dr. Hun Sen's doctrine of peace: keep on donating Khmer's land to our brotherly neighbors - The Viet and the Thai and sell whatever we have left...
I love you, Dr. Hun. I am looking forward to meeting with you in person some day in the very near future just so I could thank you personally and also read your doctorate thesis on this doctrine of peace for Cambodia.
And please Dr. Hun, keep up with your good deeds, pretty soon you'll be a Nobel prize winner!!!
Of course there is a problem with our Cambodian youths. Ah pleur Hun Sen doesn't portray himself as anything good. They see their prime minister as a thief, gangster, hypocrite, and murderer. In my opinion, the ones that need sex education are the corrupted CPP officials and the generals in the police and military that go out and have unprotected sex with under-aged girls in the brothels. Spreading HIV to their spouses and further on.
10:44 am, the last time I heard they are doing it with young boys too.
Majority boys in Phnom Penh now think it is normal.
We changed our Khmer Value, since the day of the US Invasion, later Pol Pot Regime, Vietnam Occupation and again since 1990 the Western with Vietnam Influences.
Pretty Cambodia will be like Long Beach. There won't be any virgin over 13 years old left in Cambodia. Everyone will have to marry to a used and worn out woman, unless you want to marry to a 13 years old or under.
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