 In Thailand since 2006 Child Sex Tourism ? ... is the commercial sexual exploitation of children by persons who travel from their own country to another usually less developed country to engage in sexual acts with children.
Child sex tourists come from all walks of life: they may be married or single, male or female, wealthy tourists or budget travellers. They may be paedophiles travelling specifically to exploit children or travellers who do not plan their trip with the intention of abusing a child.
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Voluntary Help to Cambodian Children
Action AVEC we struggle against trafficking
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. 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.
| We are concentrating on the future of the children, working systematically to prevent sale and trafficking in children... |
| Report from a new school | Report from a new school
After the schooling days in November, we decided to relaunch our work with the two new schools in the Homale municipality. One of them has a real absence problem among the pupils, but also among the teachers. We're hence again in the process of revitalising interest in a school. We had equipped the school with new whiteboards for the class rooms, but also distributed “school survival kits” to all of the children. Then, we started to renovate the WCs, because they... Read More >> |
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| Donate | Donate
 AVEC campaigns for and supports measures which protect children from being exploited. In our work in Cambodia we work to rescue and rehabilitate children who have been trafficked, forced into labour,
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| The work ahead | The work ahead
Phase 1: creating relationships of confidence with the local authorities (head of the municipality, chief of schools in the municipality, headmasters, teachers).
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| The AVEC Safe House Project | The AVEC Safe House Project
Why a Safe House?
The dialogue that we keep with the guardians of the children has taught us a whole lot of things. We have to put a lot of trust in our gut feeling, as each family situation is different from another. The common ground between the families is the misery, the chronic diseases and a very short-sighed view on things, as they live from day to day, worrying about their sheer survival.
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| They come to see us in Cambodia | They come to see us in Cambodia
We receive more and more visitors here in Cambodia, people who are touched by our work and want to see it with their own eyes. We take the visitors with us to see the schools and meet the children and the families in the villages. We've had visitors representing other NGOs, often big NGOs with large budgets that we can only dream about. We are happy not to be alone in our struggle against the trafficking in children, and we like to be able to share our experiences and to have the opportunity ...
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| How to Proceed to Create a Safe House | How to Proceed to Create a Safe House
To start with, we need to find the money! We think that 50'000 USD would allow us to go through with the first phase of the safe house project (with a capacity to house 50 children). Sadly for us, land prices are on a steep rise, and have tripled in the last three years.
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| February - Mars 2007 | February Mars 2007
A big workload lies ahead for our Khmer volunteers handling the two new schools with which we work. The volunteers will start with setting up a list of the poorest families in the neighbourhood, families of which the children tend not to attend school. They will also search out orphans and those children who come to school dressed in rags. This means visiting at least around 70 families in very rural areas, and analysing the life conditions of each family. During these visits, they will also ...
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| 752 children | From the 1 October, AVEC will have 752 children to support
We have found two more schools where the personnel are committed to providing basic schooling for children from rural backgrounds. They are situated in the Homale municipality, about ten kilometres from Battambang. We have planned to support all the pupils of these schools, from the beginning of the trimester. There is a total of 89 pupils in one scool and 503 in the other one. We will provide them all with what we call our “school survival kits”, with conta... Read More >> |
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| Turning point | 2006, the turning point year
2006 will have been an important year for our NGO. During these last months of working in the field here in Cambodia, we have learned a lot. We want to emphasise that the work we are able to do in favour of the Cambodian children is possible thanks to the help that individual donations bring us, donations from individuals like you. Ever since the creation of our NGO, our goal has been to be completely transparent regarding the use we make of the funds that you bestow upon us... Read More >> |
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| Shooling day |
Schooling day, 26 October
Of course we started with our old Dāksoso school, to get ourselves back on track after a long holidays break. The school organisation presently works a lot better; enrolment has sky-rocketed from 149 pupils to 200 and absence rate has gone down sharply. I remember this school when it was on a clearly downward slope, with many children missing from the classrooms when we came for unannounced visits. The teachers also seemed weary and resigned, facing all the empty desks.
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| Shooling day |
Schooling day, 27 October
Sala Balat is a very big school, which counts no less than 480 pupils. All of them are not as poor as in Dāksoso, but this will allow us to create a special bond with the headmistress of the school, and to work closely with the poorer children of the school who don't attend school on a regular basis. Furthermore, we'll look for children whose family‘s situation are very critical. We could then work in partnership with the teachers to facilitate the integration of those... Read More >> |
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| Shooling day |
Schooling day 28 October
Sala Damnak Loug is a very small school, and it is not working well. There are officially 64 pupils enrolled in the school, but our surprise visits have shown us that there are in reality only about 30 pupils attending class, the rest of the children probably spending more time in the rice fields that on the school bench. Hence, this school looks like it has been waiting for us.
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| Action october |
Action, October 2006
The absents:In the beginning of October, there was a frenetic activity among the volunteers in Cambodia. We had to prepare the launch of AVEC action in two news schools, located in the Homale municipality; the Sala Balat school and the Sala Damnak Loug school - and of course we continue to support the Daksosos school. Those two new schools will allow us to extend our schooling activities, and to develop the area that we already cover. In addition to these new responsibilitie... Read More >> |
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| Shooling day |
A New Schooling Day in Daksoso the 5 July 2006
We have planned a new rice distribution on the 5 July at the Dāksoso School. That way, we assemble all the poorest families and pupils, and we will start to distribute the letters from sponsors directly to the children, with their families present. That will provide sticks and carrots to motivate certain families, who don't seem to have grasped the fact that their children are being supported by people from another end of the world.
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| Migration |
AVOIDING MASS MIGRATION TO THE CITIES
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 a... Read More >> |
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| Diffulties |
Difficulties
Facing the enormity of our task, we do not give in, but our financial means are ridiculously small compared to the misery and the needs of certain children and of certain families' situations. There is the sickness which just won't go away and which keeps the children from going to school, because both the school and the doctor are too far away and too expensive for the parents who gain $0.5 a day.There is also this young widow, who is pregnant every year, and who doesn... Read More >> |
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| Project |
Our supplementary project description for the period 2009-2010
Details of the Project:
Our supplementary project description for the period 2009-2010 Voluntary Help to Cambodian Children.
1) Project titlePrevention of child prostitution and achievement of basic education for children
2) Geographic focus The project is located in the city of Battambang, in the Battambang region, a province in North-Western Cambodia. The region is sit... Read More >> |
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| Preparation |
Preparation for the Schooling Day
Since several days, AVEC volunteers in Cambodia prepare school survival kits for a year (notebooks, pens, school uniform etc) as well as the first food rations (10 kg rice bag, 24 packages of rice noodles, 2 kg of salt and 10 bottles of Soya sauce).
The AVEC team works according to lists of the children who are going to start school and of those who are already going there (often, the children have several first names, one in school and one at home).
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| Shooling day |
Resuming school on April 24th 2006
The whole AVEC volunteer team came together the 18th April to prepare the beginning of the school trimester. For a long time, we had been discussing the best methods to motivate parents and children. Two weeks of vacation for the children means apprehension for us, since the vacation lets the children return to their bad habitudes. Again, they have all day to fish and chase crabs, and that way, they hang out all day while at the same time contributing to the family's al... Read More >> |
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| Daksoso |
The Daksoso village and school
Thanks to the commitment of the teachers, to whom we have confided the task of controlling the pupils' absences, we have been able to establish very exact lists of present and absent pupils. Based on the lists, we will develop precise statistics for the children (types and number of absences). This will give us a useful tool when it comes to discussing, behind closed doors, with those families who show slackness with regard to the schooling of their kids.
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