Best wishes to all for the New Year. Wishing this new year brings everyone hope, joy, and movement!
COMMUNITY SUPPORT
Here at Wat Opot we don't only support our own resident children, we also support children in the community.
YOUTH IN TRANSITION
A group of past Wat Opot residents meet to share their experiences and discuss the future.

IN A ROCKET MADE OF ICE
Gail Gutradt was at a crossroads in her life when she learned of the Wat Opot Children’s Community. Begun with just fifty dollars in the pocket of Wayne Dale Matthysse, a former Marine Corps medic in Vietnam, Wat Opot, a temple complex nestled among Cambodia’s verdant rice paddies, was once a haunted scrubland that became a place of healing and respite where children with or orphaned by HIV/AIDS could live outside of fear or judgment, and find a new family—a place that Gutradt calls “a workshop for souls.”