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For Sake of Life

Support for Mine Affected Communities in Cambodia

Name of Project

 Jesuit Service Assistance to Mine Affected

Country

 Cambodia

Project Holder

 Jesuit Service - Cambodia
Box 880 Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Phone: Phnom Penh - 855 23 880139
Fax: Phnom Penh - 855 23 368259
Email: jrscam@forum.org.kh
Contact person: Sr Denise Coghlan

History of Project

Jesuit Refugee Service worked with disabled Cambodians in the refugee camps on the Thai border from 1985-1993 with skills training education, social service, and personal development with healing activities. In 1990 Jesuit Service entered Cambodia and began there in rural development activities, outreach to the disabled, education, reconciliation activities and the landmines campaign. Jesuit Service, permanently committed to the people of Cambodia, works in partnership with Metta-Karuna (Cambodian association) and in cooperation with the government. Activities take place in the provinces of Siem Reap, Banteay Meanchey (Oddar Meanchey), Battambang, Kandal and Phnom Penh.

Activities (selected examples)

Production of wheel chairs (800 per year)

Assistance to land mine victims and mine affected communities.

Helping handicapped children to attend school
Food security
Peer counseling teams
Building schools
Village literacy classes
Libraries in a mobile box

Handicapped Children's project

Wheelchairs, tricycles
Temporary accommodation
Supplementary nutrition
Family support
Schooling assistance

Skills Training: Banteay Prieb Centre

Banteay Prieb (Centre of the Dove) is a centre for people disabled by landmines, war, polio and accident. Previously it was a communications centre, a factory, a scene of Khmer Rough killings, and a prison. Since 1991 it is a place that enables the disabled to tell their own stories, to gather strength and hope from being with one another, and to learn a new skill that enhances a sense of dignity and worth (for example sculpture, agriculture, mechanics, electrical repairs, welding, furniture-making, carpentry, weaving, literacy, personal development, home-making, health). .

Advocacy

Land mine campaign