KCF
Kampot Children's Fund
What kind of children is Kampot Children's Fund helping?
Let’s give an example:
Three children of 17, 14 and 13 years old of the same family are orphans. Their mother and father died of AIDS. They are living with their aunt, but the aunt is a widow and has also to take care of her old mother. The children live with their aunt in a small farm; a small piece of land for cultivating rice, two cows, some pigs and chickens. The farmhouse is quite small and has palm leaf roof and walls.
The aunt cannot afford to pay the full costs for their education: school uniforms, textbooks, notebooks, bicycles for transport to the school, extra lessons for passing the examinations. Before the family got support from the Red Cross of Cambodia and from a Church organization. However this support stopped and because there was no other funding the children were at risk of not completing their basic education.
The children follow respectively grade 12, grade 9 and grade 7. None of them have yet had to repeat a year although they have not been able go to school every day in the past. Sometimes they are unable to go to school because they have no transport and sometimes because work around the house has to be done.
The 17 year old child cannot get support from the Kampot Children's Fund, according to the Charter of the fund only children of 16 years and younger can get support. The Meeting of the members of the Kampot Children's Fund decided to support the two younger children and we bought two bicycles; at school we bought textbooks and paid for extra lessons. We also provided two uniforms for both children and bought notebooks for them.
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