Comments on: Children of Cambodia… https://glendalarke.com/2011/05/children-of-cambodia/ Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:21:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: glenda larke https://glendalarke.com/2011/05/children-of-cambodia/#comment-18948 Wed, 11 May 2011 03:48:15 +0000 #comment-18948 We had a chance to go to the museum, Hisham — and turned it down. None of us thought we could handle it.

We did give money to disabled musicians etc, and sometimes my grandson gave donations to the kids, but mostly we just did things like buy souvenirs from village workshops, local T-shirts and so on.

And with the continuing, supervised donation to schools in a poor area we figure we are doing something. It is certainly hard to say no to beggging kids. Heartbreaking.

]]> By: Hisham https://glendalarke.com/2011/05/children-of-cambodia/#comment-18947 Wed, 11 May 2011 01:02:12 +0000 #comment-18947 How did you handle all the begging/selling of small souvenirs? When I went with my mom, it was impossible to keep on saying no or no, thank you. We definitely caved in several times… It really is quite heartbreaking, especially with the really young ones. Our tour guide suggested that donating to the Angkor Children's Hospital would be best in helping these kids survive. I hope he's right.

Did you also visit the land mine museum/refuge/nonprofit near Siem Reap? That was particularly heartbreaking too, especially with a wall where they had the names and photos of smiling children whose lives have been affected by land mines. Each one had a short passage about their life story and their hopes for the future.

]]> By: Jo https://glendalarke.com/2011/05/children-of-cambodia/#comment-18946 Tue, 10 May 2011 08:47:13 +0000 #comment-18946 Thanks for sharing, it is pretty horrifying isn't it. Governments are so busy fighting they don't take care of their people or how they live or teach them the things we take for granted, like cleanliness.

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