We work under difficult conditions, in regions which are accessible only by small clay paths and cut off from all means of communication. These small “villages” are inhabited primarily by women and children. Most of the men have left for the city, and some of them have restarted their life elsewhere, with a new wife, normally younger than the former. The system left in place by the Khmer regime does not in anyway oblige a man to provide for the needs of a woman and children that he has left behind.
It is these tiny miserable villages that serve as the main ground for the child traffickers operations. Very often, it is women traffickers who approach poor parents, promising a beautiful future for their child.

 

 

 

 

A very straight-forward contact is necessary with the village chiefs, as well as with the school head masters and the teachers, in order to follow up on the children who are attending school because of our intervention. We try to work consciously with other NGOs that are specialised in rural development, to try to find sustainable solutions for families at risk (poultry breeding, farming, etc).

We are concentrating on the future of the children, working systematically to prevent sale and trafficking in children, as well as sexually transmissible diseases. This goes especially for women living alone, who are obliged to provide for their, often numerous, children. These women work secretly in prostitution, and do not protect themselves from theses diseases for fear that they will loose their clients if they do, or because they are badly informed on STDs
We are concentrating on the future of the children, working systematically to prevent sale and trafficking in children, as well as sexually transmissible diseases. This goes especially for women living alone, who are obliged to provide for their, often numerous, children. These women work secretly in prostitution, and do not protect themselves from theses diseases for fear that they will loose their clients if they do, or because they are badly informed on STDs

 

 

We are concentrating on the future of the children, working systematically to prevent sale and trafficking in children, as well as sexually transmissible diseases. This goes especially for women living alone, who are obliged to provide for their, often numerous, children. These women work secretly in prostitution, and do not protect themselves from theses diseases for fear that they will loose their clients if they do, or because they are badly informed on STDs.

 

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Text corrected and translated by: Charlotta Friedner