Improving the Health of Children in Cambodia

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Improving the Health of Children in Cambodia

	Summary To help abandoned children, many afflicted with HIV/AIDS, and children with mental health problems. We want to address lack of food, medicine and staff training. How Donors Like You Helped Thanks to donors like you, a total of $4,741 was raised for this project.

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Our beneficiaries will be orphaned children suffering from AIDS/HIV and other diseases and children with mental health problems whose parents do not know how to cope because they were deprived of family experiences by the forced separations of the Pol Pot regime. At the Nutrition Center in Phnom Penh, we will help urban orphans from brothels and hospitals that have abandoned them. At the Child Mental Health Center, we will help families, largely the working poor, from all over Cambodia.

Activities

To fund the training of health professionals including nurses, psychologists, and social workers, and buy medicine and equipment.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $4,741

Funding Policy: subsidized/guaranteed

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $4,741as of Feb 26 2004. The original project funding goal was $55,000.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

Resources

Project's External Homepage (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FOCUSonCambodia)

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

This project will help improve the mental and physical health of orphaned children in Cambodia. This project will also ensure the sustainability of the Nutrition Center in Child Mental Health Center.

Project Message

I've been to Cambodia and I've seen how children suffer in that war-torn society. As a Vietnam veteran, I want to help counter the effects of American involvement in Southeast Asia.
- David Griffiths, President