By Elaine Woon | Fundraising and Communications
Last year, we set a goal to raise US$64,000 for our Riverkids Wings program to help families in Cambodia overcome a temporary crisis.
We’ve reached the goal, a huge thanks to your generosity and Global Giving’s three remarkable bonus matching days to raise hope for all our kids!
Your donations have helped so many of our families with rental, meals, medical and counselling support when they are temporarily knocked down by a crisis. Because you love our kids, our families could escape a medical debt, poverty and trafficking.
Trafficking is a major problem in South-East Asia. In Cambodia, we see the way poverty, gender inequalities and erratic income interact to exacerbate the problem. Malnourished, barely literate and struggling for work, children in Cambodia also face a rise in rape. While child brothels have gone underground, children from the slums can still expect either a family member or neighbour to molest or rape them, with two-thirds of hugely underreported rape cases against minors. Trafficking convictions are slowly increasing, but for the estimated one-third of Cambodian sex workers who are children or teenagers, that’s small comfort.
Our project on Global Giving’s site is now closed, but our Wings program continues to serve our families in crisis every month. Do keep in touch with us here on facebook or visit our website. It’d be awesome if you can continue to donate to keep our doors open to all 600 children so they can have a safe, bright and happy future.
Immensely grateful,
Elaine Woon
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