Empower 300 children and women to overcome poverty

We are happy that Cambodia’s control over the spread of COVID-19 and prevention to date of community transmission has been a remarkable success. This part of success is due to the important work of the COVID-19 preventative intervention of NGOs that has supported the Royal Government. However, COVID-19 still has had a devastating impact on the economy in Cambodia, especially people in Siem Reap who their livelihoods rely on tourism. Hundreds of thousands of people have lost their jobs, and these job losses have pushed a lot of people into deep poverty and hunger. At Human and Hope Association we are committed to getting through these tough times and supporting our community in whatever way they need.

Due to school closure, our team is flexible to run online classes, giving homework and drop-in sessions for our children, so they can still continue learning. Our sewing class still continue running as we only have six students per class with the preventative measure in place.

Since May 2020, we have initiated three interventions to address the impact of COVID-19 in our community: 1) Tuk Tuk hygiene outreach  2) Emergency Food Relief Packages, and 3) Home Food Garden.

Here are our achievements to date:

• 15 days of tuk-tuk hygiene outreach conducted, which 26,000 people reached
• 550 soap distributed to rural community members
• 3,500 reusable face masks distributed to rural community members
• 321 food packages distributed to poor households
• 68 poor households supported with home food garden project
• 250 children have still joined our educational classes through online classes, homework handouts, and drop-in sessions.
• 60% of our children have accessed to our online classes
• 5 women completed from our sewing class
• 14 women have still joined our sewing class

Thank you so much for your support during this tough time. Without you, we cannot continue doing our wonderful work for our community.

Links:

• HHA website