By Tanya Seeley | Trustee, H.O.P.E
Sophal, now 25, grew up in stark poverty and was forced to sell flowers to tourists when she was young (and cute!).
With huge help and support from Anjali House and in particular their Young Adult Programme that H.O.P.E helped to establish and supported, Sophal was equipped with the confidence and life skills to grab the great opporuntity to work with HALO trust (a demining organisation - see below and link). And today she earns a good wage to support herself and her family. We are so so very proud of her.
Her video will take just a few minutes to watch but will show you just how much good your support does. We would welcome any donation big or small to help more young Cambodians like Sophal become independent.
As an aside, people are usually surprised to learn that Northern Cambodia was littered with landmines, during the Vietnamese war. HALO’s second programme started in Cambodia in 1991, when HALO was asked by UNHCR to conduct a mines survey ahead of the planned repatriation of over 600,000 refugees from the Thai border camps. This programme quickly developed into full mineclearance, and 21 years later HALO has over 1,100 demining staff and has cleared well over 200,000 mines from across the north-west provinces. Helping Sophal we have also indirectly helped the progress of HALO's amazing work.
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