home visits

We went to the provinces to visit some sponsored children. The Children at Risk department in NLF runs a 3-year sponsorship program where a child out in a village gets food (rice, oil, sauces, sugar, salt, canned fish etc) and school supplies for 3 years. During the 3 years, they also help the family to start a small micro-business which could be a food stall, farming vegetables, animal farming, making hand- loomed Cambodian silk etc, so that the family will eventually be self-sufficient and no longer rely on donations. We loaded up our car with bags of rice and others before heading out of the city. During the visit, the staff will check on the child's health and living condition, any issues in the household as well as going through schoolwork with them. The staff will visit each child once a month. Each child is also linked to a provincial church planted by NLF Phnom Penh and looked after by the provincial pastor. People are very friendly and you can see community living out in these villages. The neighbours help out one another.