By Elaine Woon | Fundraising and Communications
This Christmas, we have many things to celebrate for – sales target achievements, bonuses, weddings, graduations and births.
Close your eyes and imagine for while how a tiny seven months old baby could weigh only three kilograms, but here in Cambodia, we are celebrating triumphs over storms for a little baby, her sister and mother.
This was the life of baby Chavy – she was fed wet rice with sugar and on her mother’s back in the Phnom Penh markets, watching her beg for their food daily.
But, Chavy’s mother is our hero and ‘tiger mum’ this Christmas. She is a woman who has not let HIV, death, betrayal, rape and poverty push her down.
Widowed and betrayed at her second marriage, she bravely packed her stuff to leave the house with her daughters when she discovered that her husband attempted to abuse her six-year old.
She fought fiercely to protect them, found another place to stay, a school for her six-year old, got HIV medication for herself and her daughters tested repeatedly to ensure they were negative.
Riverkids helped with formula milk, food, rent, healthcare and counselling. This came from the $46 a month you gave us through Global Giving, just $46 a month, and that changed their lives completely.
We are crossing the half way mark in our funding for the Wings program on Global Giving. We need 66 wonderful supporters like you to each give $46 a month for the next twelve months to form a steady stream of aid that achieve the same impact for a family like Chavy’s.
This Christmas, would you give a gift of $46 a month or forward this to a friend who could help? Thank you so much!
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Please note that the photograph above is of another family with a similar aged child as Chavy. Under our child protection policy, we do not use identifying photographs of our children. We also used a different name for Chavy.
By Elaine Woon | Fundraising and Communications
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