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Due to the urgent need of Cambodian children, Save the Children Cambodia for Development maintains the following selection considerations:
- Orphans
- Fatherless and motherless children - focusing on children whose parents have been affected by explosives or AIDS/HIV
- Abandoned children
- Children of extremely poor families
Meet our Current SCD Children!
Children to whom the circumstances listed above apply are invited to live at the SCD orphanage after our staff members have closely observed and researched activities in remote areas known to have the greatest and most urgent needs.
SCD is a long-term project designed to educate, house and feed our current children and to take in additional children, provided that funding is sufficient. |
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Skills and Training
One of the primary focuses during the children's stay is to educate and equip them with skills that they will utilize later in life. The following are provided on a daily basis:
- Maths, arithmetic and problem solving
- English, conversational and written
- Computers/ IT
- Khmer tradition, music and dance
- Sport - e.g football and volleyball
- Agriculture/ Horticulture - caring for animals, tending to vegetables and fruit
- Arts and Handicraft - sewing and weaving
- Social skills - additional skills to allow full participation in the community
- General education -
state-run primary and high schools
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A Day in the Life of Our Children
Monday to Friday schedule:
5:30am Wake up, clean dorms
6:00am Eat Breakfast
6:40am Walk 10 minutes to local school in nearby village
7:00am Lessons at school begin
11:00am Return to the orphanage
11:30am Eat lunch
1:30pm Extra-curricular education with the orphanage staff
3:30pm Playtime
5:00pm Wash time
5:30pm Dinner
6:00pm Reading, homework and drawing
8:30pm Prepare sleeping dorms
9:00pm Bedtime
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On Saturday night the children watch television for a few hours (e.g. cartoons and movies) and also listen to music and perform karaoke. On Sunday the children have a leisure day: some go to a village to play, while others play with their friends in the orphanage - flying kites, reading and fishing.
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