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Children from Place of Rescue Orphanage and AIDS Centre in
Cambodia performed a series of traditional dances at Westpark School,
Tuesday. Marie Ens, an advisor with Place of Rescue who has lived in
Cambodia since the 1960s, traveled with the group and spoke to the
children at Westpark. (ROBIN DUDGEON/THE DAILY GRAPHIC/QMI AGENCY)
Westpark School had some very special visitors on Tuesday morning who traveled a long way to share their stories.
Children from the Place of Rescue Orphanage and AIDS Centre came to
Westpark School in order to perform some traditional Cambodian dances
and tell the student body about their stories.
Place of Rescue is located in a village outside of Phnom Penh,
Cambodia which provides a place for terminal AIDS patients to live with
their families, as well as a place for children orphaned by AIDS can
live.
The centre also offers a rec centre, a learning centre, baby houses
where orphaned infants can be looked after, granny houses where
destitute widows will be looked after, as well as housing for pregnant
factory girls.
In the city Place of Rescue has purchased a place called the House of
New Dreams where students can live while they are attending grade 12 or
university. Currently it houses seven students.
In the years since it was created Place of Rescue has expanded to
include Place of Rescue I, Place of Rescue II in Mongkkol Borey,
Cambodia, and Place of Rescue III in Pailin, Cambodia.
For more on place of rescue visit www.placeofrescue.com.
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