By Joseph Arnhold | Media Coordinator
It’s going to be a quick update this quarter as we are currently in the process of compiling our mid-year reports. These past few months have been busy for our Community Based Client Care (CBCC) team. Working tirelessly around the clock with 30 new survivors who have just returned to Cambodia. Our team assesses their families and even their whole communities ensuring safety for the survivor upon returning home. Once a survivor returns home it doesn’t stop there. Counseling will continue for an additional 2 years. Our goal is to see women and children survivors of sexual abuse and trafficking restored to a new level of their emotional well-being and social interaction.
There are challenges that make client care difficult. Limited staff and resources keep can be stressful. The distances needed to travel to reach counseling cases constrains the amount of time we attribute to each survivor. Traveling in itself can be dangerous in Cambodia because of rain or traffic. Our staff are mostly women and we worry about their saftey in the rural communities when they visit clients. Despite these and more challenges our team works tirelessly to ensure the emotional support of each case.
Cambodia’s capacity of social service providers is still in its infancy. At Chab Dai we want to see social service providers improve their capacity and mechanism of case referral in providing support to survivors. One way we accomplish this is through our annual Social Workers Conference. Our CBCC team continue to prepare for next month’s Social Workers Conference which will be held August 16 and 17 in Phnom Penh. The conference aims to strengthen networking and capacity building of practitioners providing direct social services in Cambodia by creating an opportunity for them to share skills and expertise as well as to discuss how to address certain gaps, challenges and difficulties encountered in their daily practices.
Next quarter we will share some insights form the social workers conference.
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