Despite building a promising film career in Sydney, Tara Winkler, at just 21, dropped everything to open an orphanage in Battambang, Cambodia. On a holiday to South East Asia in 2004, Tara was deeply moved by the suffering of children she encountered at a run-down orphanage. She began fundraising and made several trips back to Cambodia. In 2007, she discovered the children were being subjected to neglect and abuse. So she rented a house, hired staff and established the Cambodian Children’s Trust (CCT). Battambang’s Governor and the local authorities gave her team full support to remove 14 children from the former orphanage and re-house them. Tara now employs local staff to care for 41 orphans, some as young as two. But CCT is now much more than an orphanage. Its community development and outreach projects are supporting poor families in the Battambang region so that their children do not need residential care. Tara has begun developing enterprises that will enable CCT to support itself. In conjunction with a major hospital in Phnom Penh, she also has plans to develop a medical facility. Tara now speaks fluent Khmer and against huge odds is changing the lives of some of Cambodia’s most vulnerable children.
please visit http://www.cambodianchildrenstrust.org/.
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Cambodian Children's Trust (CCT) on Australian Story - Part 1
Cambodian Children's Trust (CCT) on Australian Story - Part 2
Cambodian Children's Trust (CCT) on Australian Story - Part 3
5 comments:
She is angel of Cambodia orphans, thank and may God bless you.
I wish you well, Merry Xmas and Happy New Year.
You are an angel of Cambodia orphans, thank and may God bless you.
I wish you well, Merry Xmas and Happy New Year.
Thank you, Tara for your heart and compassion for these children. Cambodia and the world is indebted to you for your self-less labour and humanity, and hopefully the enormity of the cause you are fighting for and dedicating your life to will be duly acknowledged as has Mother Theresa of Calcutta and other great humanitarians who had come before you.
Certainly, you are a Godsend to these kids.
Thank you Tara. You have the heart of Mother Teresa and the look of a supermodel. You are a godsend.
Hello,
She is a amazing person and she is my angel. Merry Christmas to you, Tara.
I'll start donating to CCT in January..
Thanks
SKH, Bridgewater, MASS, USA.
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