Hot lunches for 500 Cambodian children and youth

A big hello from Cambodia!

From all of us here at M’Lop Tapang, thank you again for your support and donations to help provide hot lunches to children who attend our education and training programs.

Your generosity is benefitting hundreds of Cambodian children from local low-income families. As you can see in the photos, the meals we serve are not fancy, but the food is healthy and nutritious. Providing free hot lunches helps lessen food insecurity among children whose families may struggle to afford regular meals. We know that hunger can have a big impact on a child's ability to concentrate and learn. By making sure they have access to healthy meals at school, you are helping to give them the energy they need to succeed in their studies.

Thank you again for your encouraging support.

Gratefully yours,

Roth Chanphalkun (Kun)
Co-Director, M’Lop Tapang

Links:

• Lunchtime at M'Lop Tapang's Education Center

Dear friends,

Once again, we want to thank you so much for your donations supporting the work at M’Lop Tapang and helping to make sure that hundreds of disadvantaged Cambodian children and youth in our education and training programs are having healthy, hot lunches.  Although they are not always very fancy, the meals the children get are always healthy, nutritious, and tasty.

Did you know that last year, in 2022, we provided more than a quarter of million meals?  You helped us to do that!

Thank you again for your donations and encouragement.

With much appreciation,

Roth Chanphalkun (Kun), Co-Director, M'Lop Tapang

Links:

• M'Lop Tapang's 2022 Annual Report

Dear friend,

A huge thank you for your donations and support to help the children and youth M’Lop Tapang is working with.

With your help, hundreds of students at our Education Center continue to enjoy a healthy breakfast, a hot lunch, and healthy afternoon snacks every day.  For many of them, particularly the ones living in poverty households, these are the most nutritious foods they will have to eat all day.

Your contributions are helping children like 8-year-old Sophea*, one of the newest students to start attending classes at our Education Center.  Growing up in a very unstable home life, until she started studying at M’Lop Tapang she had never been to school before.  She used to just stay at home and often had to take care of her 2-year-old little brother.  Now she attends classes every day, and her younger brother receives supervised daytime care in our Baby Care Program.

“I am happier here than staying at my house.  I have friends to play with and toys and things that I don’t have at home.  And I am really happy that I don’t have to take care of my brother all the time and have to carry him everywhere.”

From all of us here at M’Lop Tapang, thank you for your gifts that are making life better for Cambodian children like Sophea and so many others.

With gratitude,

Roth Chanphalkun (Kun), Co-Director, M’Lop Tapang

*Name and photo changed for confidentiality

Dear friend,

From all of us here at M’Lop Tapang we would like to say thank you again for your generous donations that support the work our teams are doing here in Cambodia.

We believe that every child has the right to an education.  We know that education is a powerful tool for breaking the cycle of poverty; supporting child growth and development, and laying the groundwork for a better future.  Sadly, we continue to meet many children who, because of poverty, have never had the chance for a proper education.

M’Lop Tapang’s non-formal education (NFE) programs help children and youth who have never been to school (or have been out of school for a long time) catch up with their studies. The goal is that they will be reintegrated into the local public school system at a grade level suitable for their age.  So far this year more than 200 new children have joined these classes at our Education center!

Because of your help, these boys and girls are not only getting a chance to learn to read and write, they are also being given access to free medical care, hot nutritious meals, supervised extracurricular activities, and social support. Thank you!

With much appreciation,

Roth Chanphalkun

Co-Director, M’Lop Tapang

Hello again from M’Lop Tapang!

A huge thank you from all of us here for your support and donations. It has been incredibly busy here and with your help we are continuing to provide hundreds of hot lunches to children and youth in our education and training programs every day.

As we have said before, the meals we serve are not fancy, but they are healthy and nutritious and filling.  

“I love the food here. I love breakfast too - sometimes we have porridge with braised-fish, sometimes porridge with pork. Today I had chicken soup for lunch and it was nice.” – quote 12-year-old Sinat* who attends M’Lop Tapang’s Education Center with her two younger sisters, aged 11 and 6 years old. The three girls live with the parents at one of the temporary construction sites near the beach.

Sinat is just one of more than 500 children that benefit from the hot lunches served at M’Lop Tapang.  You are helping to make that happen with your donations!  Thank you.

With deepest gratitude,

Roth Chanphalkun (Kun), Co-Director M'Lop Tapang

Links:

• Lunchtime at M'Lop Tapang
• M'Lop Tapang's Education Center