Justice after seven years. In February 2009, the Cambodian authorities arrested Erik Leonardus Peeters, a 48-year-old American citizen, on suspicion of sexual contact with children. Peeters had arrived in Cambodia in 2008 and within two months had started to look for...
Two sisters find justice. Makara is seven, and her big sister Sopheak is nine. They live in a rural province in Cambodia with their grandmother, who they moved in with a couple of years ago when their parents moved away. In the months that followed their move, both...
The cause for medical care, right here in the communities we reach, needs you. Will you consider making a gift to help them get well? Medical care is too expensive for our clients, many of whom are children trapped in a cycle of poverty, exploitation and abuse....
At Hagar’s Community Learning Centre in Cambodia, all of the students who attend our school come from low-income families. Unlike children who grew up and live under “normal” circumstances, these children have suffered trafficking and severe abuse and as a result,...
This is Sophea. Sophea grew up at the back of a market. Her life was not easy. “My mother was cruel and hit me whenever I did something wrong. At times I thought she might not be my real mother because she was so cruel towards me. My father was the only one who...
