Wat Opot Children's Community

Sina is the second wife of Ly… his first wife died of AIDS related causes and left him with a young girl to care for. Ly was also HIV positive but knew if others found out about it, it would be very difficult to find another wife… and so he kept it a secret.
Sina [...]

 
21 August 2009
It was late in the afternoon when the troop carriers came unto campus and unloaded twenty-five members of a US Marine Corp Engineering team. Their mission was clear… to seek out and destroy the Wat Opot Children’s Community’s volley ball team in the Mother of all Games… but it wasn’t as easy as [...]

The paint was chipped and peeling on the first of our buildings, which was opened in 2001 as a Hospice for AIDS Victims. When we closed the hospice in 2007, we used the building to house our children… but it was never intended for childcare and sleeping in the same room, that your parents and [...]

Friday 3 July, 2009

They finished the Dinosaur but I wasn’t sure where they were going with the rest of the painting… and neither were they.

They spent a lot of time evaluating and trying out different effects. How to do the babies in the pouch was especially difficult for them. They started with three but kept [...]

See some photos of the new dorm and the opening ceremony on the Partners in Compassion site: http://www.partnersincompassioncambodia.com/index_files/newdorm.htm