Help Cambodians end family and community violence

For the past 6 months we have been supporting trained women from our Peacebuilding and Conflict Transmation Training. The women were encourage to work with men in thier communituy to raise awareness of the important of raising women voice in their community. So trained women were able to work together to mobilize their communities members and local authorities to participate in Children Celebration Day. These are new expereince for their life time to be able learn and eneaged in their community issues on children protection and raising good children. The women will be doing more community enegagement on diffrent events that will help raise awareness and respond the community problems.   

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• Children Celebration Coordinated by Trained Women
• Children Celebration Coordinated by Trained Women

For the past 12 months, Peace Bridges Organization (PBO) has been encouraing small groups of woman from Phnom Pehn and natrual resources protection ares from Prey Lang and Preahrokar Forest covered four provinces inclide Kampong Thom, Preah Vihea, Stung Treng and Kratie to come together and discuss ways or what they can do to raise their voice in their family and community. Many of these communties are ethinc minoroty where women are not only marginalised but suffer a lot by violence in home. These woman groups innitiated different community events where they enage with men and local authoties to raise their voice and participation and decision making in their communties and natrual resources protection effort. The community events include celebration of internaltion woman right day, fish release, Children's Right Day, and strategic plan meeting for their ongoing capacity building and community enegagement.        

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• Celebration of International Women Right Day
• Women Coaching for Community Initiatives

As part of the support for women to address their everyday challenges in their families, work and community, On11-12 December 2021, Peace Bridges Organization had gathering women circle group who had 28 participants to join us at Shalom Valley, Kep province under the theme “Women in Self-Development” sharing by Ms. Chak Sopheap, Executive Director for the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR). Besides, women had opportunity to learn, reflection, teambuilding, share experiences with each other, and to encourage each other. Participants included Christian, Buddhist and Muslim, and some of them are housewives, businesswomen, private company employees and NGO staff. In this gathering, we used the slogan "You can do it" to encourage, to motivate, and to support each other.

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• Women Circle Retreat

Over the last few months, we have facilitated several events with the Women's Circle, a network of female peacebuilders who are participating in the CEEJA program (Citizen's Engaged in Environmental Justice for All). 

In November, we convened a 2-day workshop with 42 people called "Women's Participation in Community and Natural Resource Protection." At this event, the participates engaged in discussions and learning on physical and mental health, leadership, and community participation. The women released fish into the stream as a symbol of their commitment to restore and protect the environment. 

In December, 28 of the women gathered for a Women's Circle retreat at Shalom Valley. Participants were of various faiths and socioeconomic backgrounds. They met to have fun as well as learn from and support each other. Ms. Sopheap, the Executive Director for the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), spoke with the group about "self-development." They also had time for reflecting, sharing, and teambuilding on an obstacle course.

Thank you for your support. We wish everyone a happy and safe holiday season. 

Blessings - 

The PBO Team

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• "Citizens Engaged in Environmental Justice for All"