Cambodge Soir29-10-2008
The border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia left children of the families living in the surrounding area of the temple school less. A British sponsored NGO help them to go back to school.
Yim Sokhary, director of Street Children Assistance and Development Programme (Scadp), stated that her and her colleagues sent back 115 children to school. Lessons temporarily take place in the buildings of the organization, located 30km from Preah Vihear. “I want the children to be far from the danger zone so that they can be provided with schooling and try to forget the fear they and their families are suffering from”, she said.
The Scadp project was originally conceived for 30 pupils and is now hosting around 100 children. Financial problems are mounting especially when buying the daily 25kg ration of rice. Yim Sokhary added that the children cared for, come from a school of the organisation close to the Preah Vihear site. They also come from the Hun Sen Prasat Preah Vihear School, which had to close when the shooting started. Children of the soldiers and policemen sent to the border are also enrolled. As soon as the situation will be back to normal, the children will be able to return to their normal schools. To support Cambodian soldiers’ moral, the director focuses in particular on the children of those who died fighting; she teaches them in person.
Scadp was created in 1992 and it cares for poor children living on the streets, forced to work in rural or urban areas. A total of 10,000 underage children are supported throughout six provinces and towns of the Kingdom: Phnom Penh, Kandal, Preah Vihear, Prey Veng, Koh Kong and Kampong Speu.
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