Here at Wat Opot we don't only support our own resident children, we also support children in the community.
A group of past Wat Opot residents meet to share their experiences and discuss the future.
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.”
I was in a cleaning mood. With such a large family, things end up shoved here or there awaiting a permanent home which many times should be the trash, but there is always that feeling “you never know…” When going through the kids cafe and kitchen, I found a large bag of mismatched containers, lids […]
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