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| These are the children of the "New orphanage center" in Phnom Penh, wich is supported by our cambodian friend, Phanna Chhaeng. They are all HIV-positive and have lost both of they're parents. The main idea about the orphanage is to give the children as good life as posible the time they have left. | ||||
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| They are taken good care of by the staff, and given a lot of love and care. The staff are working for free. They are not HIV-positive, but they have no family except the kids. Phanna came with a bag of new slippers from a local sponsor when we came to visit, and I have never seen children so enthusiastic for receiving a gift most western-kids take for granted. | ||||
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| The first pictures above shows the childrens bed-room. There were 21 children at the orphanage when we came to visit. | ||||
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| The kids get the medicine they need, and they go to school every day. They try to live a normal life as possible, and once every week Phanna takes them out in the orphanage's mini-van and drives around the city. | ||||
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| They where all very tender and wanted to make contact with you. A few of them knew some english words like "Hello" and "What's your name?". Pretty good considering that they don't yet have a english teacher in their school. | ||||
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| As you can see, the children are mostly happy as normal children usually is. This gives us a clue that the idea about the orphanage is working. Give the kids lots of love and let them live as good life as they can for the short time they have left. It warms your heart to see this kind of charity in a world I never knew existed. | ||||
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| The children loved to be photographed, and tried the best they could to come in the picture-frames. When I showed them the pictures I took of them, they where thrilled and only wanted me to take more pictures. I kind of communicated with them while I was doing it, and it filled me joy as I felt I was doing something for them. Giving them a little happiness. It only took a digital camera and a little of my time to amouse 21 children. Some of them where reaching out to me and wanted their photograph taken. | ||||
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| If you look really close to the pictures you can see that some of the kids have signs of they're disease. Fortunatly they seemed unaffected by it. They where full of life and joy. | ||||
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| The entire orphanage is seen in the picture to the right. It's a two story building with as many kids as it's possible to take care of. These kids are the lucky ones. As Phanna says: "Unfortunatly we are unable to help them all, but we can help a few..." | ||||
As my own little contribution to the orphanage, I have started to make a web-site for them: |
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