Sponsor's update from Siem Reap, Cambodia

Child sponsorship update from the SOS Children's Village Siem Reap, Cambodia from Summer 2008

With great pleasure we would like to share with you the latest happenings and recent developments that have taken place in the SOS Children’s Village Angkor Siem Reap during the last 6 months. Without donations from the supporters our work would be impossible, and every money we are given is a great help towards the work we do.

A half years SOS Children’s Village Angkor Siem Reap has been a home for 141 children among whom 86 boys and 50 girls age from 2 month to sixteen years old living in fourteen family houses. Moreover, At the SOS Nursery School inside the SOS School Angkor Siem Reap where are located the next door of the village. You can hear children laughing in every group. The SOS Kindergarten Angkor Siem Reap is attended by children from the community as well as from the SOS Children's Village. This is a place which is never quiet! Up to 116 children between the age 3-6 attend SOS Nursery School who are 12 children attend the SOS Nursery School from the village.

Availability of suitable classrooms, games and toys ensures that the children are given the optimum conditions for developing their social, intellectual and creative skills and they are prepared for the primary school. The other 79 children are attending Primary school, 44 children attending Secondary school and the 05 children attend High school.

To make children’s life more interesting, purposeful and to promote their development a lot of activities and events are organised within as well as out of the Village. Education was the challenging part in the working process of children development programme. We prepared for activities to educate our children. All our children from grade 3 to grade 8 were started reading book such as school, histories, joke, proverb books in our SOS library in everyday work in order to improve their basic and social knowledge which was leaded by our educator.

Preparing children for the future

Therefore, our educators have trained directly and smoothly cooperation with SOS mother to training the children by each family in everyday work in order solving their education problem and others additional training. In addition, our children tried very hard in learning from school and others additional training classes like dancing, football and Karate-Do. On March 17, 2008, we have an exam of the Karate-Do which is the first grade examination. The result was: 23 children were upgraded to brown belt and 41 children to blue belt. The brown belt is the highest grade in the exam.

On June 1, 2008 Children’s Rights Day was celebrated in SOS Children’s Village Angkor Siem Reap for a whole day in defferent programme setting. All children from each family house were really cheerful with educational story performance, game competetions and challenging questionairs. It was beneficial for all of them both essential comprehension and motivative rewards. All Coworkers, Nursery School Teachers, and Mothers joined this celebration in order to encourage those children to be happy to live and learn here. Apart from this, we will organise another trip for the older children who got the good result of the year to visit the beach and other attrative resort ourtside the Siem Reap province.

We hope that you will continue to sponsor our Village and witness how children grow up and turn into independent happy persons only thanks to your generosity and kind will. Helping children in need is the responsibility of all the people. Your generous contribution helps us make our vision a reality, enables us to provide children with hope and opportunity for a better tomorrow. Together we can let the children know that they are not forgotten and they are still in our hearts.

On behalf of all the children and the whole SOS organisation we would like to express our gratitude for your help and support.

Wishing you all the best

Sincerely yours,

Mrs.Meas Mala
Senior Co-worker-Sponsorship