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Education and Vocational Training

CCPCR — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 23:13:05 CDT

CCPCR build small schools in remote areas where there is a lack of public schools. These schools provide free education for young children to attend from level 1 to 3, before they are integrated into the nearest public schools to their village.

Children in CCPCR’s shelters have access to formal public schooling if they are staying longer term, and all residents receive informal schooling in the shelter. They learn Khmer studies, literacy, numeracy, moral training, etiquette, computer skills and English as well as vocational training in sewing, weaving, cooking and animal care.

Rehabilitation and Reintegration

CCPCR — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 23:09:06 CDT

CCPCR had 3 shelters in Phnom Penh, Svay Rieng and Sihanoukville. These shelters provide a safe, nurturing environment for children and young women rescued from abusive and violating situations particularly victims of trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation. Victims are brought to us through a number of channels, including other NGO’s, local authority, Village Safety Net Programmes and the police. The shelters provided food, housing, clothes, education in local public schools, heath care and psychotherapy. During the course of the child/young person’s stay they will be rehabilitated and provided with psycho-social post-trauma counselling (this usually takes around six months) before the careful re-integration process is undertaken. Young children can stay for longer periods of time in order to continue their study in public school.

Clients also receive vocational training in sewing, weaving, beauty, animal care and cooking to increase their future economic opportunities after they leave the centre. If it is safe to do so, CCPCR will aid the reintegration of the client back into their community after they have recuperated in the shelters. CCPCR continues to monitor and evaluate the client’s progress after they have been re-integrated into their communities to ensure their psychological, physical and economic needs are being met. More counselling and financial assistance will be provided if required.

If it is not suitable for the client to return to their community depending on their age and experience, they will either be helped to find jobs in garment factories or referred to other more long-term shelters. Their progress will be monitored after they have left the shelter.

Activities and Excursions

CCPCR — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 22:16:50 CDT

The shelters receive international guests on occasions who play music, teach English and play games with the children.

The children in both Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville have been on excursions to the beach where they can swim and play safely under the supervision of shelter staff. The children form the Phnom Penh shelter are going on a 3 day holiday to Siem Reap where they will visit the great temples of Angkor and enjoy accommodation in hotels and eating in restaurants. With more donations, fun activities and excursions can become more frequent, and we greatly receive guests and donations from the international community.

Home

CCPCR — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 23:11:31 CDT

Children of all ages are being placed in extreme danger as they are trafficked to and within all regions of Cambodia for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation. Domestic violence and physical and sexual abuses are endemic problems in many communities: symptoms of poverty and a breakdown in morality after decades of civil war. CCPCR believe that no child should have to live in fear of violations to their rights; and are dedicated to the eradication of these abuses in troubled communities to enable a peaceful, optimistic future for the people of Cambodia.

CCPCR is a non-government, non-partisan, non-religious organisation founded in 1994 by Mr Yim Po on a mandate from the Ministry of Interiour, in accordance to guidlines set out by the United Nations Commission for Human Rights (UNCHR).

Our Vision:
For all children to retain their basic human rights and escape all forms of abuse, especially sexual abuse, trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation.

Our Mission:
To promote, protect and rescue children (under the age of 18) of all nationalities in Cambodia in distressing circumstances such as physical and sexual abuse, trafficking and those at-risk of being forced or sold into the sex industry for exploitative purposes.

Our Activities in Brief:

Prevention Program in rural communities:

Prevent children’s rights abuses and the spread of HIV/AIDS through public awareness training
Facilitate the development of a Village Safety Net Program to improve civic engagement.

Research, Investigation and Rescue:

Of children from brothels or other exploitative establishments
Provision of legal aid for victims

Rehabilitation and Recovery:

Four shelters in Phnom Penh, Svay Rieng, Sihanoukville and Takeo
Provide temporary accommodation (6 months depending on the case), food, health care, trauma counseling, education, vocational training, sports activities and excursions.

Reintegration and follow-up:

Facilitate the repatriation of children with their families if appropriate
refer victims to more permanent shelters
Find victims jobs in garment factories.

Child Education and Participation:

Create temporary schooling up to level 2 in remote areas with no public school system.

HIV/AIDS in Cambodia

CCPCR — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 04:56:50 CDT

HIV and AIDS is a significant problem in Cambodia with an estimated 170, 000 sufferers in both rural and urban regions (UNICEF Cambodia 2006). HIV/AIDS is endemic for commercial sex workers in Phnom Penh where an estimated 37% are HIV positive. These figures are slowly decreasing, however the unintended by-product of this positive development, is that the demand for younger and younger girls has shot up. Young girls are considered clean and disease free yet the very fact that their bodies are not physically ready for sexual intercourse with grown men makes them extremely susceptible to contracting fatal sexually transmitted diseases.

CCPCR conducts training workshops in numerous rural provinces to educate people about the dangers of HIV/AIDS with the aim of removing misconceptions about the spread of these and other diseases, facilitating further prevention. We are particularly determined eradicate the belief that young girls provide immunity to these diseases and to promote that fact that anybody undertaking unprotected sex has the potential to contract these diseases.

Trafficking in Cambodia

CCPCR — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 04:46:16 CDT

The concept of human trafficking has many facets; however, of concern to CCPCR is the trafficking of young women and children from mostly rural poor rural regions of Cambodia and Vietnam for commercial sexual exploitation. The trafficking of children for commercial sexual purposes is an endemic problem in Cambodia and has become the focus of domestic and international human rights concerns.

Most rural regions of Cambodia are suffering from extreme poverty due to the low value of agricultural production and the long-term effects of decades of civil war. Most provinces experienced years of turbulent Khmer Rouge activities, and the effects of living for decades in dire poverty in regions engulfed by violence have created a volatile, precarious environment in which serious human rights violations continue to prevail.

These poor rural communities have proved to be a fertile environment in which unscrupulous individuals prey on vulnerable young people. Child prostitution rings and sex abusers commonly draw their victims from the poorest families in the communities. Some families have been mislead into believing that they are sending their child away to earn good money to send back to the family, while others have been tricked by people they trust such as friends, other family members, or people posing as respectable business men or women. With the “agreement” of the family, the child is then sold to brothels and locked into sexual slavery. If the child ever gets the opportunity to return to their community they are often confronted by reactions of contempt from the local population and sometimes even their own families, as they struggle with the stigma of their new identity. Social norms attach high value to women’s chastity and stipulate that women remain virgin’s until marriage. Deviation from these norms, even through rape may result in the victim being shunned by society and deemed unfit for marriage.