CAMBODIAN HOPE

Be A HERO works with Cambodian Hope to construct buildings at the Cambodian Hope Children’s Home, and raises child sponsors for the children living there.

Cambodian Hope Organization (CHO) works with communities in and around Poipet on Cambodia’s northwest border with Thailand. CHO is a local Non-Government Organization registered with the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Rural Development in June 2002. Targeting the needs and opportunities presented in the community, projects include:

Home and school vegetable gardening; water sanitation; animal husbandry; vocational training (sewing, motorbike repair, computer training); HIV/AIDS education and home care; financial assistance to disabled families; restaurant management, food prep, and hygiene training; awareness training re: child trafficking and domestic violence; well drilling.

CHO focuses on assisting:

• Children whose parents are HIV/AIDS positive
• Children from landless families
• Children from families where one or more parents has disability
• Children & women at risk of rape, exploitation and trafficking
• Children from families with drug abuse, alcoholism, or incarceration
• Children amongst the poorest of the poor from families with more than 3 children

Cambodian Hope has been providing basic life-skills training to children and women; promoting child rights and awareness of trafficking; classes on enhancing health and HIV/AIDS education and prevention; teaching and supporting home vegetable gardening; enabling micro-business through micro-loans, the Clothes Community project, and the Carpets for Communities project.

If you would like further information on Be A HERO’s projects with Cambodian Hope Children’s Home in Poipet, Cambodia click here. If you would like to sponsor one of their children click here. To learn more of Cambodian Hope’s work, visit their website at:

www.cambodianhope.org