Children's stories

Jury’s family has been struggling for some time to afford to send all its children school, they were so desperate for their children to receive a good education that the borrowed $100 in order that Jury’s eldest brother Ratha continues his education. Unfortunately tragedy recently struck the family as Jury’s father passed away.

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Chan Veasna, 11, studied grade 3 at a primary school in rural remote area of Cambodia. Veasna lives with 76 years old grandmother in a very smallest thatch hut was built on the ground with very old and poorest condition. Their livelihood is very worth as there is no any key person to generate income.

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Cheurn Thavy, 09, is the second girl of Chan Pisei family. She presently studies grade 3 at a primary school in rural remote area of Cambodia. His father works as construction worker and he can earn less than $2.5 US dollar a day.To get the job he has to leave his family to work very far from home and there isn’t every day.

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Kumpeak’s mother wasn’t able to effort with her husband’s abusiveness so the divorced is the last option that they had been chosen. Kumpheak studies 6th grade at primary school in rural remote area of a poorest province of Cambodia. Beside of going to study at school, due to the mother wasn’t able to use her labour for work so Kumpheak is the only key person to.

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Creb Sreyown is a fatherless girl whose is the fifth child within Meas Pha family. She is 12 years old studied grade 6 in a rural area primary school of Cambodia. Her father passed away by AIDS about 8 years ago leaving her mother lives with not sure whether she infects by or not as she is very afraid to conduct blood test as well as she often attacks by her heart disease.

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His father died six years ago and since then his mother has remarried and divorced. Deuk’s mother has been drinking heavily every day since her husband died and can often be found wandering the village during the day. She does not work and spends most of her time in the dilapidated hut where she lives with Deuk and his 7 siblings.

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Kang Chantrea, 13, studies grade 7 at a secondary school in remote rural area of Cambodia. She has four sisters and brothers. They are fatherless. Several years ago, her mother was divorced her husband who beat her and kids, but the husband demanded that she give him all of the family’s belongings.

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Lim Sokunthea, 14, is the fourth girl of the Lim family who live in very poor conditions in a small hut that was built as a temporary measure. The council offered to resettle the family as soon as possible however this has not taken place and instead the family are receiving a number of threatening letters.

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Nhaem Meuk, 12, is the third child of Nhaem Samai family. Her mother is single mother who has three children under her burden. Her husband violated her seriously before illegal enforcement her and children to leave the family while he has another step-wife. They left their living place in Pursat province to Kampong Speu several years ago.

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Sorn Ousa, 12, studies grade 5 at a primary school in rural area of Cambodia. Ousa is the third daughters of her family. Her family is HIV/AIDs family which led father passed away seven years ago while the mother lives with since then. The mother is able to survive until today with a value money gift donates through SSF enabling her to travelling and getting consultation and ARV medicine from a hospital in Phnom Penh monthly basis. Read More...|Sponsor this child

 

 

Phannith is a malnourished baby boy that his mother and all his household members [10] aren't care about his life. They blame their living condition is extreemly poor and impossible to survive all [10] household members as well as because of all children are required to send to school as the government demands.
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Chetra Mam was born on September 04, 1993 at Bel village, Skus commune, Samrong Tong district and Kampong Speu province. His parents were died and now, he lives in Champa Tep pagoda at the same village as his birth’s place.Now, Chetra studies grade 10. In school, he studies very hard but now he is very difficult with his study because he has along trip to high school. School is far around 10KM from Pagoda.
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Tim Srey Neath, 15, is the third daughter among ten household members including an 83 grandmother, a son-in-law and his daughter. The second daughter, at only sixteen years of age has been forced to go and work in a garment factory to support her family. The reason the family needs her to work so badly is because this is the only way that they can pay the money lenders.
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Hoeurng Phalika was born in 1995 in a hometown where currently Phalika and her household members are in Kampong Speu province. She and other two older brothers and a sister were fatherless as their father passed away by AIDS since 2004. Phalika’s father was trafficked
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Aek Chanba Aek Chanba is an orphan whom his both parents passed away several years ago. Currently, He lives in Champa Tep pagoda’s Tonlab village, Skuh commune, Samrong Tong district, Kampong Speu province of Cambodia and under taken care by master monk of that pagoda.
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Chhum Dara is a small pretty girl; she doesn’t know who are the father and mother, she feed by grand foster father Chheuy Chhum and his wife so far. Mr.Chheuy Chhum and his wife told us that they found Dara from a pipe of garbage while they went to collect recycling in an early morning of one day.
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Creb Saroeun is the fourth child within his family. Saroeun's family lives in Tonlab village, within the Skus commune, in the Sarong Tong district of the Kampong Speu province. His family lives below the poverty line as there was nobody to generate an income after his father passed away around 6 years ago due to the AIDs virus.
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Theanin is the eldest of the Lim family who live in very poor conditions in a small hut that was built as a temporary measure. The council offered to resettle the family as soon as possible however this has not taken place and instead the family are receiving a number of threatening letters.
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Souk’s parents are farmers; however her father is ill and has been for the last ten years. He gets sick often and this means that they are not able to plant the cabbage that they usually grow every year. Also her father needs to pay $130 a year in medication which also drains more from an already poor family.
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Chanthait’s father died when she was aged 7 in grade 1 at school. He died of an illness, however the exact cause of the illness is not known. Her mother was a farmer but sadly no longer grows crops. She sold the farm land one year ago to pay off some of the debt incurred through treatment for the grandfather’s illness and travel fess to Thailand for job seeking.
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Sokha, 17, the forth in her family comes from an absolute poor family with chronic problem of domestic violence. Her parents themselves are farmers, cultivating cabbage and morning glory. When Sokha was only in grade four her father had an accident as he fell from a palm tree and as a result has had mental health issues since.
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Deu Dy is fourteen years old. Her father died six years ago and since then her mother has remarried and divorced. Dy’s mother has been drinking heavily every day since her husband died and can often be found wandering the village during the day. She does not work and spends most of her time in the dilapidated hut where she lives with Dy and Dy’s 7 siblings.
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Nguon Kunthea is 14 years old, and lives in an extremely poor family in Phsa Chas village, in the Svay Kravan commune, in the Chba Morn district, which is located in the Kampong Speu province. Her father died of malaria when she was 5 months old, leaving her mother to care for two children by herself.
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Ratha is another member of the Lim family who SSF would like to support. So far the SSF is heavily involved with the family, and to find out more about their plight see the Lim family profile. Ratha, as with the others, does not attend school. He attended until grade 3 when he had to stop, that was 5 months ago. He stopped because his family could no longer afford to send him.

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