Wat Opot Children's Community

Read Wayne’s post about new artistic happenings at Wat Opot: http://partnersincompassioncambodia.com/index_files/aaj.htm
Exciting and beautiful things are happening!

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 [...]

3 July, 2009

For those of us not as gifted in the Arts, there was also something to do.
Backbreaking work in the HOT HOT Sun pulling up new rice to be replanted.

Everyone is expected to work including the young. In Communal Life there can be no sluggards and no time for goofing off!

Well it sounds good [...]