Street Kids Rescue

Making a Difference

A Single Starfish, by Loren Eisley

"As a man was walking along a beach reflecting on his life, one of his thoughts was that no matter how he tried to make a difference he always seemed to be spitting in to the wind."

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Shwin Lan

An orphanage for 90 children and school for an additional 150. Twice a week volunteers provide food, medical care and clean the children’s clothes.

The Eden Centre

This centre provides medical care and education for 150 disabled children. Although they have an adequate building, they do not have enough income for wages and running costs. There are 34 staff including special-needs teachers, nurses and physiotherapists.

We provide regular financial help.

Ban Houay Ko

This tribal village is accessible only by boat. The 134 children have a school but hardly any books as the annual funding only covers the teachers’ subsistence wages.

We have provided them with textbooks and writing materials.

Rural Orphanage Centre

Run by Pol Pean, a young teacher with a passion to help as many children as he can and set in the countryside outside Siem Reap.

They were growing vegetables but, in order to increase production, they needed a water reservoir. We funded this and they were growing enough to sell some as well.

When we visited in Oct 09, they had lost their vegetable crop and 4 months rice supply to Typhoon Ketsana. We gave cash to help towards recovery and have bought them a rice threshing machine. They buy raw rice at low cost and also thresh rice for local villages for a small payment. Our aim is to help them towards self-sufficiency as, the more income they generate, the more children he can take in and prevent from becoming street kids.

T.M.W Orphanage

83 children live here. On retirement, the local headmaster spent his life savings on buying a house and taking in homeless children. Although he needs $700 a month, his income was approximately $300 a month. He could not afford meat, clothes or mosquito nets and some of the children suffered from malaria.

SKR now provides the necessary funding and have bought a generator as the children often had to study by candle light.

Orphanage Support

We have another 166 kids in 6 more orphanages to support in the same area as our planned centre for disabled kids.

Village Earth

Drew McDowell, a young American, runs two projects for street children in Phnom Penh. He holds classes in English, computing, health advice. He runs medical and dental surgeries for local children. He also gives financial help to children for education and medical care.

We provide regular funding support.

Z.O

In the village of K.T is the Z.O convent. Here, a few Buddhist nuns care for 50 young girls (some of them orphans) and also run a school for 150 local children. We are now helping to feed them and plan to start a clinic here.

MCCF

We cover the feeding costs at day-care centres in migrant worker camps in Bangkok and Pattaya. These offer care, food and protection for children while their parents are at work. Prior to this, they were wandering the streets prey to drug abuse and sex trafficking. The centres were established by Tracy Cosgrove, an English lady who lives and works there and ensures the safety of 150 vulnerable children. Three full-time staff are employed at each one.

Compassionate Orphanage

Run by a 25 year old man (an orphan himself) and his wife, this orphanage is home to 19 children. When we met him they were desperate - they had no money for food or rent. He had built up a large debt with the rice merchant and many of his promised donations had not materialised. We paid off the debt, bought ducks and pigs to help towards self sufficiency and give regular support. The ducks are now laying eggs and we have also rented 5 acres in which they grow vegetables to eat and sell.

Immanuel

A Christian orphanage for ethnic minority groups from the hill tribes. A much needed new school building was completed in Sept. 08.

We have also provided them with pigs for breeding to assist them in becoming more self-sufficient (one of the teachers has attended a course on pig farming.)

Ban Kuta Loung

A Hmong tribal village in the hills where the school for 159 children had virtually no books or medicine. We have supplied them with both.

Ban Ku Kham Poam

A Kmu tribal village which we have supplied with school books.

Medical Supplies Aid

SKR has sent over 90 kg of essential medicine with a wholesale value of £12,000 which was divided among three free clinics including ours and the cancer ward at a local hospital.

Clinics

In one extremely poor area Duncan visited, he learnt that ill children there have only two options: get better or die. SKR has now set up a clinic here. It is open one day a week and treats 50 children each surgery. It is run by a trained nurse and three volunteer doctors work on a rota basis.

SKR supports another clinic in Mandalay for which we have paid set-up costs and bought medicine.

V.S Monastery School

A monastic school for 450 local children. With Save the Children, SKR built 5 classrooms and 12 toilets.

Delta school

In a village accessible only by boat is a school for 35 children which could not afford a teacher. We pay the teacher’s wages and supply books and uniforms.

River Kids Project

The River Kids Project in Phnom Penh provides 300 children with education and vocational training. They also work with slum families helping them support their children. We have given funding.

The Cherry School

A Burmese doctor resident in the UK has funded the wages of 18 teachers at a monastic orphanage and school for 400 children.

We are always happy to accept donations for specific purposes and will ensure that the money goes directly to that project.

Blood Transfusions

SKR now organises blood donors so that children with Leukaemia can have regular transfusions.

ODA

At the ODA orphanage in Siem Reap, we have given regular support and are currently installing a solar generator and wind power system.

Wells

We are installing wells and pumps at 2 schools in rural villages – giving 800 kids drinking water and washing facilities.

Individual Help

We regularly meet children and families who desperately need help. Here are just a few cases.

• Hla Hla Win is a charming and lively little girl we found living on the street with her mother and 2 younger siblings. Her father died of T.B. She now goes to school and, despite missing 2 years, Hla Hla is getting A’s in all subjects. We have provided the family with accommodation.
• Duncan was introduced to a 14-year-old girl who was suffering from severe abdominal pain and had been ill for many months. Her parents could not afford to take her to a doctor. We arranged medical care and it was discovered that she has Thalasaemmia and needs regular blood transfusions, which we organise and pay for.
• We are providing a 16 year old deaf and dumb boy with vocational training to become a hairdresser.
• We support 4 orphans who are being cared for by their elderly grandmother who has no income.

The Children

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