Showing posts with label activities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label activities. Show all posts
Wednesday, 5 May 2021
Thursday, 1 October 2020
Solidarity between Associations and partners
AEFC Association d'Entraide des Français du Cambodge is a french association , which is acting to help and support French Community in Cambodia providing a vast support, in all kind of problems or situations, they are also helping NGO’s which have lost donors because of the Covid 19.
L’aefc is receiving a lot of food from Kiwimart Cambodia to be distributed to the French communities in trouble and also too different NGO’s who are working with the most vulnerable communities of Phnom Penh.
Shanty Town Spirit had been one of the beneficiary among other Association to receive groceries such as dry biscuits, snacks, noodles and many other Items.
Those groceries have been distributed on a regular basis to the most vulnerable communities in different slums.
The huge amount of supplies gave us the opportunity to support our NGOS partner’s such as Little Heart, Genesis of Transformation, Light Of Mercy.
Because of the sanitary crisis (Covid 19) some people lost their job or loose a part of their salary, so without L'aefc and Kiwi Mart it will be more difficult for them and for us to support them.
The donation is so welcome and give them the chance to help the communities with their food support, so that families can still eat and keep their usual good spirit.
Because of Covid 19 situation is very hard for all of us to continue, nor for French communities neither for foreigners. Regarding all NGO’s in general, participation is less that it was used to be, so it makes to situation even worth.
For the last distribution of food, we were very happy to have with us Mr Bruno Bogvad correspond to L’aefc, like this he manage to have a correct picture of how we are using the donation and how it’s like in the life of the disadvantage communities.
Bruno was very surprise and happy to see families receiving us with big smiles. We were able to manage spending quality time with the kids of Boeung Trabek, they all spoke to us a lot on different subjects such as life, school. They were very proud to make us discover their environment. They were excited about this visit, and try their best to keep us as long as they could.
Thank you so much to L’aefc and kiwimart-Cambodia for your support and for your good heart since the sanitary crisis begins.
One Spirit, One Heart, One Community
You can help us by sponsoring the Shanty Town Spirit program:
Click on Make a difference or Email us
Contact Ermine Norodom: +855 (0) 17 49 27 19 (French and English)
norodomermine@gmail.com
Words by Nathalie Bonpain
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
Mama’s Kitchen in Shanty Town
Mama's Kitchen is a project born in response to the global pandemic Covid-19 with a mission to deliver plant-based nutritious food to the most vulnerable in our society. They believe that no one should ever go hungry, be it humans or animals.
Shanty Town Spirit Association is very grateful to Mama’s Kitchen for their food deliveries they were able to organise for the families in the Community in Boeung Trabek. They were able to provide 150 nutritious delicious vegan lunches to the most vulnerable people - children, elderly and disabled - in the slums.
Mrs Yulia Khouri, the head of this new Program of Mama’s Kitchen is really trying her best to provide food to the poorest.
Clearly there is huge need of nutrition in the large impoverished pockets of this city. Yulia can be very proud of her fantastic & very hardworking team she has, and she is very happy to be able to support manies communities in need. .
Mama’s Kitchen, at the beginning of the Corona Virus, came three times a week to deliver those meals, but now the situation is getting better in our community, it turns to be one time a week, because the Association wants to help other poor people.
People in the Shanty Town are waiting for those meals, distribution is made every Monday , the beneficiaries of this programme are coming with a provided ticket.
At first, the target are children, elderly, and families who lost their job.
They are very excited, waiting for the Association to come.
Mama’s Kitchen and Shanty Town have a very good communication, turning around the slums after the distribution and planning the next distribution.
Everything is going very well.
Thank you to all the team of Mama's Kitchen for your support during this difficult time.
Monday, 13 July 2020
True Heart : Maria Barbosa de Lima
Her name is Maira Barbosa de Lima, she is 65 years old, and Brazilian. She is graduated in Accounting, and Bachelor in Theology focused in Anthropology and Social Services.
She is retired now, and before she used to work as a Financial Manager in different companies in São Paulo in Brazil. She worked for many years as a social worker in poor communities with the street’s kids in São Paulo, where she even sheltered 15 of those children.
Until today she keeps in touch with them and some are now married...
She left Brazil in 2008 and went to United Estates to improve her English, she then arrived in Cambodia in January 2009 and has been in there since.
She is a Christian missionary and in the bottom of her heart she truly believes that God guided her where she is now.
She came to Cambodia with the vision to communicate with people, in order to spread the gospel and helping the poor communities to transform they lives.. Firstly she learned khmer language, through this to built the relationship with local people. She focused on the vulnerable children with dysfunctional families in the poor communities.
She connect the children with public schools, provide them all kind of support they could need : financial, counseling, professional training, spiritual guidance etc...
She is helping different NGOs and Poor families from the poorest communities supported by Shanty Town Spirit Ermine Norodom Association, checking the school results, taking them to the dentist, doctor also when needed, visiting the families to get to know their physical and spiritual needs..
Maira organized outdoor events, swimming pool, teaching English and bible studies. A lot of things to carry on, she is doing an amazing job helping everyone with all their difficulties she as a tremendous amount of work and she is so much devoting to help Shanty Town Spirit and the other NGO’s.
One very last project is to transform an acquired room in the Boeung Trabek slum to become an activities place such as teaching all kind of subjects, English, extra classes, Art etc…. after the Covid crisis it is a project to begin.
Maira is a multi task person, she is also teaching English to disabilities children at Light of Mercy NGO.
Maira is doing all that from her heart as a volunteer, she feels so much joy and happiness when she see people and families getting out of the slums, improving their life and having a good job or proper home.
Finally not forgetting to mention that Maira is fostering a little girl : Sothea , for more than 7 years, providing her a proper living and a good education.
Thank you very much Maira for the tremendous work you are doing with us, Shanty Town Spirit and all the other people you are supporting.
God bless you Maira for your kind heart helping everybody and everyone.
One Spirit, One Heart, One Community
One Spirit, One Heart, One Community
You can help us by sponsoring the Shanty Town Spirit program:
Contact Ermine Norodom: +855 (0) 17 49 27 19 (French and English)
norodomermine@gmail.com
Words by Nathalie Bonpain
Monday, 14 October 2019
The excellent school results of the Boeung Trabek kids !
We paid another visit to the Boeung Trabek community ! Indeed, we had some donated clothes to distribute, and Ermine needed to see the kids of the community to check on their school results as well ! So we were first welcomed by Sokear, one of the first children that Ermine took care of, and then joined by Srey Net, Srey Nith, Srey Lip, Ron and Terry’s grandmother ! They were all very happy to see us !
We first began with the clothes distribution, which were mainly girls’. In these moments, we have to remain as fair as possible so that every child gets about the same amount of things. We let the girls pick what suited them best and they were all delighted with what they received in the end ! Everyone deserves to have decent clothes and to feel good-looking in them !
Then, it was time for Ermine to check on the kids’ school results, as she does every month. Everyone handed Ermine their grades of the month and she gave rewards to the children who had worked well and progressed since the previous time. It is important for Shanty Town Spirit to keep a little stringency regarding the school results, so that the children understand the importance of school, education and hard work in life ! Because every kid has the right to go to school !
We were very happy to note that almost every child is below 10 in the class ranking !
It is always a very precious and joyful moment to go visit the community of Boeung Trabek a few times a month ! The kids always welcome us with big smiles and warm hugs !
One Spirit, One Heart, One Community
You can help us by sponsoring the Shanty Town Spirit program:
Click on Make a difference
OR contact Ermine Norodom: +855 (0) 17 49 27 19 (French and English)
norodomermine@gmail.com
Phirun Prak (Arun): +855 (0) 96 663 6666 (English and Khmer)
arun.aenorodom@gmail.com
words by Matthieu Membrez
Wednesday, 14 August 2019
Sokear’s dream job !
Ermine and some other Shanty Town Spirit volunteers including Maïra paid a visit to the Boeung Trabek community: we didn’t come over empty-handed ! Indeed, Nathy has very kindly donated her bike to Sokear, one of the very first kids looked after by Ermine who is now almost 20. Sokear was very happy about that since he was actually in need of a bike to go to work and to school !
Sokear took us to his house to see his family and his friends: Srey Nett, her grandmother and Srey Nith were there and they kindly invited us to stay a moment with them. So we talked for a little while: they told us about their school results, their job and how the children of the community were doing. Then, we talked about what they dream to become later. Sokear, for example, wishes to become a lawyer and is about to enter law school ! Thanks to his faith and his determination, and also thanks to the work of the donors and the volunteers, Sokear can get closer to his dreams !
After that, we visited a few of the usual families of the community, all always delighted to see us ! On that day, we came with bars of soap, toothbrushes and clothes for the kids ! All the children were able to get themselves one of each ! It really was a wonderful moment !
One Spirit, One Heart, One Community
You can help us by sponsoring the Shanty Town Spirit program:
Click on Make a difference
OR contact Ermine Norodom: +855 (0) 17 49 27 19 (French and English)
norodomermine@gmail.com
Phirun Prak (Arun): +855 (0) 96 663 6666 (English and Khmer)
arun.aenorodom@gmail.com
words by Matthieu Membrez
Monday, 10 June 2019
A wonderful afternoon at the Swimming Pool
Thank you to Kathleen Gees, because of her, a very nice afternoon could have been organized at the swimming pool.
All the kids were full of joy and happiness.
Sokear, once again, enjoyed to take the role of organiser. He took the responsibility to pay attention to all the kids, helped them for the lunch, and took part of all the activities in the pool.
They all played a lot
And the lunch was delightfull
Thank you again to Kathleen, and a special thank you to Maira, who was also an asset during this afternoon.
One Spirit, One Heart, One Community
You can help us by sponsoring the Shanty Town Spirit program:
Click on Make a difference
OR contact Ermine Norodom: +855 (0) 17 49 27 19 (French and English)
norodomermine@gmail.com
Phirun Prak (Arun): +855 (0) 96 663 6666 (English and Khmer)
arun.aenorodom@gmail.com
words by Nathalie Bonpain
