Mith Samlanh - a program for street children in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- added April 4, 2008
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- brendadnyc
- A film by Brenda Davis & Lynne Melcher
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A short film about a program for street kids in Phnom Penh, Cambodia called Mith Samlanh.
Mith Samlanh is Khmer for Friends.
Anyone who has traveled to Phnom Penh has seen the staggering number of street children in Phnom Penh. Someone once told me that handing money to a child on the street is equivalent to telling them that you agree to their lot in life. That's why I love what Mith Samlanh does for street children and their families
Mith Samlanh’s mission is to get children off the streets. The parents of street children are given an income generating project, Mith Samlanh agrees to buy the product and sell it in there shop with the agreement that the children stay in school, instead of being sent to beg on the street. The shop where the products are sold in Phnom Penh is called Friends n’ Stuff. The charming products are made from local, recycled and easily sources low-cost materials such as recycled newspapers and magazines. So much better than buying a souvenir that is probably made in China
I love Mith Samlanh’s mission, so I am including it below.
Mith Samlanh’s mission is:
1. Meeting the street children's immediate essential needs in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child:
- the right to life: providing nutritional meals, shelter, a safe environment and medical care;
- the right to development: providing education and reintegrating them into public school and by developing their curiosity;
- the right to protection: fighting all forms of abuse against children including physical, sexual, family, and emotional abuse;
- the right to participation: making children aware of their responsibilities and promoting action within the center and in the community;
2. Reintegrating the children into their families, into society, into the public school system, into their culture;
3. and building the capacity of the staff so that the Cambodian nationals are able to run the program independent of foreign intervention in the near future.
How great is that!!
Mith Samlanh is Khmer for Friends.
Anyone who has traveled to Phnom Penh has seen the staggering number of street children in Phnom Penh. Someone once told me that handing money to a child on the street is equivalent to telling them that you agree to their lot in life. That's why I love what Mith Samlanh does for street children and their families
Mith Samlanh’s mission is to get children off the streets. The parents of street children are given an income generating project, Mith Samlanh agrees to buy the product and sell it in there shop with the agreement that the children stay in school, instead of being sent to beg on the street. The shop where the products are sold in Phnom Penh is called Friends n’ Stuff. The charming products are made from local, recycled and easily sources low-cost materials such as recycled newspapers and magazines. So much better than buying a souvenir that is probably made in China
I love Mith Samlanh’s mission, so I am including it below.
Mith Samlanh’s mission is:
1. Meeting the street children's immediate essential needs in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child:
- the right to life: providing nutritional meals, shelter, a safe environment and medical care;
- the right to development: providing education and reintegrating them into public school and by developing their curiosity;
- the right to protection: fighting all forms of abuse against children including physical, sexual, family, and emotional abuse;
- the right to participation: making children aware of their responsibilities and promoting action within the center and in the community;
2. Reintegrating the children into their families, into society, into the public school system, into their culture;
3. and building the capacity of the staff so that the Cambodian nationals are able to run the program independent of foreign intervention in the near future.
How great is that!!
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- brendadnyc
- 6 months ago
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incredible solutions to problems. solutions only the local people can generate because they live it. we always think that we can just give some money and the problems go away, but in reality it exagerates the situation and as they say in this film, even approves of it.
thanks for this enlightening film...-
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- sprocketkf
- 6 months ago
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Very enlightening ....
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- carolanderson
- 6 months ago
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it's very important to help keep the children off the streets as begging breeds begging, schooling is very important as education is a way to escape poverty. also, people working on the streets selling books, newspapers or doing shoe shine or selling small wares, may see beggars receiving more than they may earn and be dis illusioned about work. some tourists give TOO generously to beggars and make some workers question the worth of their work. best to donate to honourable charities or offer food.
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- geofflorimer
- 3 months ago
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