The First Volunteer from AAI present at CHO
Based to partnership's MOU between CHO and AAI. The first volunteer provided by Australian Aid International (AAI) Mr. Paul Gould has been deployed on date 9th to 25th April 2012. The first task of first volunteer to see where and how the both partnership apply its program to support the poverty families and children in Cambodia, additionally also Mr. Paul will take some parts of his volunteering time to teach English language and help to start the cooperation on another health program to support Pailin region.
CHO has provided some tasks to volunteer what he will doing during period of time with CHO's program such; teach English language, plans, cooperation and action to support CHO activities as well.
Reported by: Mr. Rath Sareth, 12th April 2012
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Visiting from ex-volunteer from Hong Kong
After finished their volunteering time with CHO for 2months since June-August 2011. The Hong Kong Students Ms. Peggy Wong and Ms. Anna Mari Ho, have came back on 1st-6th April 2012, to visit CHO for the period of one week with their students at CHO center. They're happy to see CHO in progresses and continuing to help the children around Battambang province.
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Visit from Ms. Sophie Wallace on 12th in December 2011
Based to the exploring of partnership of CHO to many organizations, privates and institutes around the world. Recently, CHO has visited by Australian Aid International (AAI) organization’s representative to see where and how the both partnership apply its program to support the poverty children in Cambodia.
After, the CHO director, BoD member and AAI representative have discussed throughout Friday 09th December 2011, 05:00-7:00pm and the AAI representative keen to visit at CHO centers by Monday 12th December 2011.
Monday, 12th December 2011, at 08:00am o´clock, child hope organization (CHO) was greeting by director and staff to AAI representative, her name Sophie Wallace, who came to visit the safe center where the place at CHO office, to see the opportunity to support the children. First, all children in CHO center sing the four songs together in front of office to welcome to visitor that she spent much time to visit CHO.
After that, Executive director invite visitor to see the children at English and computer classes. Behind, see all things at CHO, Director and Visitor have a meeting to looking for the opportunity of program, as well foreseen in the first step we have signed the MOU to agree opening the volunteer program of education, which will start in January 2012. Moreover, at the afternoon, the director and Mrs. Sophie, both have invited to see another center in Oh Trea village, Samrong Oh Trea commune, Ek Phnom district where 3km from the CHO office. After see the activities of classes, place, equipments at the center; visitor has much impressed with the CHO mission to help the children, however, CHO has diminutive support from outsiders, but the program is directly to support the children.
The visit was finished at 03:00pm, after the CHO staff and visitor have taken a photograph together in front of the office.
Reported by: Mr. Rath Sareth, 13th December 2011
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Dr. JoAnn Degeorgio-Lutz's did need assessment for CHO.
Dr.JoAnn Degeorgio-Lutz, who CHO’s Honorary BOD from A&M University Commerce Texas, and her students Christina and Kristin, they have spent 03 days(9th,10th,11th November 2011) in Cambodia with CHO to researched and did the need assessment of children and poor families. With this occasional, they have much pay attention and hard working to find the needs of the Cambodian children who at risk to many social problems. They’re happy to helping CHO and supporting it mission, in vision to promote underprivileged children for their brightness future. During, research’s time which show them many results that show, how the Cambodian children they have had at risks such as drug uses, labor exploitation, domestic violence, most poor situation and trafficking. The results have lead them to take some responses and action plan reduce some of those problems, based to create a sponsorship program and propose some projects to solve the most needs. During 3days, they have met, saw and provided information by the children families and good cooperation from the local authorities. CHO, would be keeping it mission and appreciated to the hard works of Dr.JoAnn and her students and CHO would like to say grateful to the team.
Reported by: CHO staff
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Cooperation between CHO and Austin college
We have good communication with the external institutes. Recently, CHO has received an Internship from Austin College in Texas-USA. His name is Randy Tea. He is willing to work hard to help poor children in Cambodia. He taught English, raised funds and was also involved in many organization programs. However, he interned with CHO for 3 weeks, a time period too short time for him, but he was very happy to see the good activities of CHO. He will help look for charitable people, donors to support the CHO program proposals. He feels very sympathetic during home visits to the children's families, and he saw many poverty conditions, such as lack of food, poor educational support, hazardous labor exploitation, domestic violence towards to children… etc. He learned much about Cambodian children and the community situation; therefore, he hopes that his work will help reduce some children problems. He loved to teach English, play with the children and entertain with jokes and stories. The children love him very much and they're happy to participate in his classes. Randy has had the opportunity to see the situation of the real life of impoverished children and their communities. Those children and their families mostly live in slum areas and poor villages.
Cooperation with the Faculty of Hong Kong University:
A co-operation between Child Hope Organization (CHO) and (MOEI) Migrant Outreach Education Initiative worked to improve the education program in Cambodia; especially with its internal education program forms, CHO has agreed to accept students from the faculty social sciences of the University of Hong Kong. These students have an internship to teach English at CHO classes for a period of 2 months. The children amount to more than two hundred whose backgrounds include being orphans, street children and part of impoverished families. The students gained access to real conversations and instruction by the foreign teachers. These children are very happy to participate in the classes.
