Wednesday 6th July 2011
By Steve Sowden
Chard and Ilmister News, UK
AN Ilminster teenager preparing for a six-month trip to Cambodia to help in an orphanage is appealing for News readers’ help.
Lora Bennett (pictured), 19, of Canal Way, will be flying out in August and staying in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, with a local family.
She will work in one of the many orphanages there and help teach children.
“The orphanage I am volunteering at has asked me to bring teaching equipment with me and I’m hoping local people might help,” she said.
“I’m looking for people to donate things like pens, notebooks, stickers and colouring crayons, and also some basic first aid equipment.”
Lora added: “I’m really looking forward to going and I can’t contain my excitement. It’s going to be a real challenge.”
Lora is volunteering through the International Volunteer HQ group.
Cambodia has a sad past. During the 1970s the communist Khmer Rouge regime executed more than two million Cambodians.
Many children are orphans because their parents have died from HIV or landmine traps, and many have been simply abandoned.
Drop in any pens and pencils for Lora to take with her at the News offices at 3a Fore Street in Chard.
Chard and Ilmister News, UK
AN Ilminster teenager preparing for a six-month trip to Cambodia to help in an orphanage is appealing for News readers’ help.
Lora Bennett (pictured), 19, of Canal Way, will be flying out in August and staying in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, with a local family.
She will work in one of the many orphanages there and help teach children.
“The orphanage I am volunteering at has asked me to bring teaching equipment with me and I’m hoping local people might help,” she said.
“I’m looking for people to donate things like pens, notebooks, stickers and colouring crayons, and also some basic first aid equipment.”
Lora added: “I’m really looking forward to going and I can’t contain my excitement. It’s going to be a real challenge.”
Lora is volunteering through the International Volunteer HQ group.
Cambodia has a sad past. During the 1970s the communist Khmer Rouge regime executed more than two million Cambodians.
Many children are orphans because their parents have died from HIV or landmine traps, and many have been simply abandoned.
Drop in any pens and pencils for Lora to take with her at the News offices at 3a Fore Street in Chard.
2 comments:
She's cute
Thats wrong, there are not so many orphans anymore. Thats a picture created by the companies to get the demand for orphanage work. Ask your orphanage where the kids come from and if they have parents. And than ask yourself if they could have been kept in a Family. Yes, they could. IVHQ is not transparent and a legit development or volunteering company. Its for profit, they often create more harm than good.
http://www.orphanages.no/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Responsible-Volunteering/270333629677425
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