H.O.P.E RECONNECT - SIEM REAP SCHOLLS
LIFE & HOPE ASSOCIATION · CARING FOR CAMBODIA · 2007
Two schools. One morning. Ten minutes apart by tuk-tuk.
At Wat Damnak, inside one of the oldest Buddhist monasteries in Siem Reap, young women were learning to sew at the Life & Hope Association. The program had opened just one year earlier. Scarves and bags embroidered "Good Luck LHA" were stacked on tables. The students were among the very first graduates — 16, 17, 18 years old. Today, 370+ women have followed in their footsteps. LHA now builds houses for the poorest families in five surrounding villages. They call them Peace Houses.
Down the road, at a primary school supported by Caring for Cambodia, children in white shirts with the CFC logo ran toward the camera. Dozens of them. Bare feet on red earth. CFC had been operating since 2003, giving children in Siem Reap province what the Khmer Rouge had taken from their parents — teachers, classrooms, meals, a reason to stay in school. Today, CFC runs 21 schools serving over 9,000 students.
The children in these photographs were between 5 and 18 years old. Today they are young adults aged 24-37. Some may be teachers now. Some may have children of their own attending CFC schools.
In 2027, the sewing school at LHA will transform the monumental H.O.P.E installations into school bags. CFC's 21 schools will distribute them to the next generation. The women of 2007 sew for the children of 2027.
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