The wonderful people in Phnom Penh who have made an incredible choice to live amoung the people they are trying to help is inspiring.
I mentioned the JJ Center in the slums run by a woman who actually still works for Transworld Radio.
There is also a man who works closely with JJ, but runs a Christian school called, New Life. The need for these private schools is pressing, as the government schools are so lacking. Most of the kids in New Life have parents that pay for their tuition, which is pennies in comparison to private schools in other parts of the world. The man who runs the school tries to find kids from the slums to come to this school in hopes of changing the future. He offers money to the parents of the slum-kids: he offers the family the same income the child brings in to the family (by the child selling things from the rubbish heap). The parents sometimes try to come to the school and take the children back, but the director seems to keep these parents in control.
Our team performed a play for the kids at New Life. They all brought their little chairs out to the courtyard to watch and they were the sweetest and most repsectful little kids I've ever seen.
I mentioned the JJ Center in the slums run by a woman who actually still works for Transworld Radio.
There is also a man who works closely with JJ, but runs a Christian school called, New Life. The need for these private schools is pressing, as the government schools are so lacking. Most of the kids in New Life have parents that pay for their tuition, which is pennies in comparison to private schools in other parts of the world. The man who runs the school tries to find kids from the slums to come to this school in hopes of changing the future. He offers money to the parents of the slum-kids: he offers the family the same income the child brings in to the family (by the child selling things from the rubbish heap). The parents sometimes try to come to the school and take the children back, but the director seems to keep these parents in control.
Our team performed a play for the kids at New Life. They all brought their little chairs out to the courtyard to watch and they were the sweetest and most repsectful little kids I've ever seen.
This is one of the classrooms we painted for the school.
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