Cambodia

Hagar International

(www.hagarinternational.org)

There is an ancient story of a slave woman named Hagar. She became pregnant by her Master and cast out of the home by the Master's wife. To break the cycle of poverty, HAGAR intervenes in the lives of vulnerable mothers and children by offering prevention, rehabilitation, and reintegration programs.

We are passionate about the recovery and restoration of exploited, destitute and rejected women and children into life in all its fullness.

We are best at enabling women and children to reach their full potential through indivualized and long – term holistic care in a nurturing Christian environment.


Friends  (Mith Samlanh)

(www.streetfriends.org)

Friends  (Mith Samlanh) is a Cambodian Non-Governmental, non-political and non-denominational organization. They run twelve interlinked programs for street children with centers in Phnom Penh, Kampong Speu and Kampong Cham provinces and outreach activities in all provinces in Cambodia.

They support various NGOs and GOs throughout Cambodia and around the world (Pakistan and Thailand) to start effective street children projects. Street Friends has recently started a project in Vientiane, Laos.

The overall objectives of FRIENDS are:

1. Meeting the street children's immediate essential needs in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child:

- the right to life: providing nutritional meals, shelter, a safe environment and medical care;

- the right to development: providing education and reintegrating them into public school and by developing their curiosity;

- the right to protection: fighting all forms of abuse against children including physical, sexual, family, and emotional abuse;

- the right to participation: making children aware of their responsibilities and promoting action within the center and in the community;

2. Reintegrating the children into their families, into society, into the public school system, into their culture;

3. and building the capacity of the staff so that the Cambodian nationals are able to run the program independent of foreign intervention in the near future.