November 2021 Drawing competition at Urban Village's education activity

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November 2021 "Be someone's reason to smile"

 

“Children need models rather than critics.” -Joseph Joubert- Shanty Town Spirit Ermine Norodom Association with the kids of the community of Boeung Trabek at Botanico Wine & Beer Garden having a coffee meeting. 

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             To support communities to improve their quality of life.

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  Contact Ermine Norodom: +855 (0) 17 49 27 19 (French and English)

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Archives & Société : Ermine Norodom, une chance pour ces enfants presque oubliés

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Life during the Lockdown in Phnom Penh with Shanty Town Spirit

Situation with the Covid 19 is very challenging for the last few months for Shanty Town Spirit Ermine Norodom Association Cambodia. Since we are on lockdown we are in strict restrictions and cannot go further than our neighborhood. The kids remain at home doing online courses “for the more fortunate” and the other will go back to school probably for the next scholar year 2021/2022.

 All the shops are closed except essentials ones, with very strict hygiene protocol. Hopefully everybody should have at least one grocery shop around the corner and a good delivery system which it is helping for the heavy essentials like water and rice. We have been on lockdown since the 7th April 2021 and advised to stay home until further notice.

 Some of the people had to stay at their worksite or have to work for securities, and or, for essentials reasons, like security, police, front line, food business etc… people put their life in strafe to keep us secure and well. On regular basis, people bring them gifts or what they could need.

Like us we ever offered some hygiene kits to the rubbish collectors and to the guards in our Borei to say thank you for their hard work to keep us safe and to keep us in a good and clean neighborhood. 

This situation gives us time to think about many thinks, how to share, to help one another, to spend time with our love ones, to talk online with the families and friends, walk around, to play with our kids and the most important it’s to appreciate what we have as many don't have anything at all. Luckily just before the lockdown Shanty Town Spirit manage to distribute essential supplies such as groceries, hygiene kits include “face masks, tooth paste, tooth brush, soaps”.

Also to distribute formula for 32 babies in the community of Boeung Trabek and to 40 babies born in Jail with the collaboration of Il Nodo and off course by respecting the rules and social distancing in vigor. 

We are still in contact with the communities, everybody staying safe waiting the go ahead for the next distribution witch it’s going to be more masks has it become obligatory to wear them. And to carry on our work to follow our objective and target to support self-empowerment and self-sufficiency of families living impoverished communities so as to improve their quality of life. One of the people living in the community we are helping, has been send to hospital with Covid, we hope that he will recover shortly, and we hope to be able to carry on our work soon. 

Our association has continued to give more help to the underprivileged families and children despite this period of global pandemic who severely affected Cambodia. Your amazing support and contribution help Shanty Town Spirit to provide essentials needs to some of the most vulnerable kids and families living in Cambodia. We could not do this without you. Shanty Town Spirit thank you sincerely for your fidelity and generosity. Please take care of yourself and your loved ones during these difficult times, which we hope will soon be well behind us.

One Spirit, One Heart, One Community   

                                   

       You can help us by sponsoring the Shanty Town Spirit program:

             To support communities so as to improve their quality of life.

  Email us 

  Contact Ermine Norodom: +855 (0) 17 49 27 19 (French and English)

norodomermine@gmail.com

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Kiesers Episode 16 Slum Saints

4 people that are making a difference in Cambodia.

4 people you need to hear about today from the Kiesers...

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Shanty Town Spirit Visit Pot's Family

We manage to bring two bicycles. We managed to buy because of the financial help from our donors.  

A big thank you to them, those bikes are essential as they live far from the city and tuk tuks are expensive.   

One bike is for his wife so she can do the food shopping, and the other is for his two sons to enable them to go back to school when the schools reopen. 

One Spirit, One Heart, One Community   

                                   

       You can help us by sponsoring the Shanty Town Spirit program:

             To support communities so as to improve their quality of life.

  Email us 

  Contact Ermine Norodom: +855 (0) 17 49 27 19 (French and English)

norodomermine@gmail.com

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Video : The great expectations of Srey Nett

Film de dix-sept minutes montrant le travail d'Ermine Norodom et de l'équipe de l'ONG qui porte son nom. Ermine Norodom apporte un soutien quotidien aux familles pauvres vivant dans les bidonvilles de Phnom Penh, au Cambodge. Ermine Norodom souhaite remercier Danay Mao, son collègue de travail et ami qui travaille avec elle depuis le début de cette mission difficile. Le programme Shanty Town Spirit a permis à plusieurs familles d'envoyer leurs enfants à l'école et d'améliorer considérablement leurs conditions de vie quotidiennes

Seventeen minutes movie showing the work of Ermine Norodom and the team of the NGO that bears her name. Ermine Norodom brings day to day support to poor families living in the slums in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Ermine Norodom wishes to thanks Danay Mao, her work mate and friend who has been working with her since the beginning of that difficult mission. The Shanty Town Spirit program allowed several families to send their kids to school and to dramatically improve their daily life conditions. 

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A wonderful encounter with Pot's family.

Pot is a 40’s years old disabled Cambodian. He is in the street, begging for his family, for five years.  We know Pot for two years by passing a front of him everyday and helping by giving him some supplies every time we can.

He lives near the province of Kandal, 30 minutes away from his spot in a little house with his wife, children and his in-law family.   We got there in March 2021 and were welcomed by the full family.

His wife Chanak is 30’s years old, she worked for a long time in the field of agriculture with her family. Until she got her last daughter, who is now three years old.  She is now taking care of the whole family. She and Pot got married in 2012 and together they have three children.

The eldest is a boy of 12 Theara, the second, a boy of 6 Thearith and the youngest, as said 3 Theary.  They were all attending Jompok'aek School until Covid19 pandemic starts.

They no longer go to school, so their father: Pot teaches them when he comes home in the evening.

Pot is disabled since he was born, he had poliomyelitis. (a contagious disease caused by a virus (the poliovirus) that invades the nervous system and can lead to irreversible paralysis.

Twice a day Pot takes a motorbike taxi (eight dollars to come to Phnom Penh each day two return ways) Money he has to beg for.

Six years ago, he worked as a volunteer in a church, receiving food for his family in exchange. But unfortunately, the church closed, and Pot found himself without a permanent job. 

With his disability it is very difficult for him to find a job, so he receives regular help from Shanty Town Spirit. 

During our visit we faced the extremely difficult situation they are in.   We manage to bring two bicycles. We managed to buy because of the financial help from our donors.  

A big thank you to them, those bikes are essential as they live far from the city and tuk tuks are expensive.   

One bike is for his wife so she can do the food shopping, and the other is for his two sons to enable them to go back to school when the schools reopen. 

They also received baby milk, fruits and some money from Shanty Town Spirit to compensate this day of work as we ask him to stay home with his family. On that day he had swollen feet, so he was very happy to have a day off. 

We also discussed with them different ideas we could put in place so that Pot would no longer beg, for example: sell tissue masks, or fruits along the streets etc...   Not so easy for the moment.  Any new Idea is most welcome if you have some.

We take every possibility into consideration.

We keep on looking how is the best way to help Pot and his family, even though the world is facing a tremendous epidemic.

Let’s hope to find solution for this wonderful family.

Thank you for them and Shanty Town Spirit for your support during this difficult time.

One Spirit, One Heart, One Community   

                                   

       You can help us by sponsoring the Shanty Town Spirit program:

             To support communities so as to improve their quality of life.

  Email us 

  Contact Ermine Norodom: +855 (0) 17 49 27 19 (French and English)

norodomermine@gmail.com

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Shanty Town Spirit's Babies enlighten in the bossom of the families.

Dental care to University of Puthisastra Dentistry

Dental care for underprivileged Children.

For the past two years now, our association Shanty Town Spirit has been accompanying every week a group of six to ten children to the Dental University of Puthisastra Dentistry. 

We would like to thank the dental University for their dedication to our association. Your amazing support and contribution help Shanty Town Spirit to provide essentials needs to some of the most vulnerable kids and families living in Cambodia.

https://www.puthisastra.edu.kh/news-events/dentistry/up-launches-curriculum-review-working-group-2/

                                                                                                    

               

These children and families are not fortunate enough to be able to afford dental care, and most of them have serious dental problems. That is why regular follow-ups are done at the University of Puthisastra, for many of these children it is the first time they go to the dentist. They are stressed but happy to have access to dental hygiene. The dentists offer their services free of charge, for scaling, tooth decay extraction etc…  A checkup is organized every 6 months. 

                                                                                         

     

Shanty Town Spirit Association still need to pay for the extra care such as, crowns or dental surgeries, so that the child can have a complete treatment when needed and provide the transportation by tuk-tuk, lunches and drinks. 

During the Covid19 period, the Dental University opens and closes its doors depending on government restrictions. We are looking forward to the reopening of the dental University so that we can continue the dental care of these children. In the meantime, and more than ever we continue the distribution of hygiene products so that the children can still have access to hygiene.  

One Spirit, One Heart, One Community   

                                   

       You can help us by sponsoring the Shanty Town Spirit program:

             To support communities so as to improve their quality of life.

  Email us 

  Contact Ermine Norodom: +855 (0) 17 49 27 19 (French and English)

norodomermine@gmail.com

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Au coeur de Shanty Town

ពិធីប្រគល់សម្ភារៈសិក្សាដល់កុមារក្នុងអង្គការ Shanty Town Spirit_Bayon TV

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7 years old Saronne need you

Shanty Town Spirit help to rescue a little girl of 7 years old, who definitely needs help form our donors. Her mother died in September 2020; her brother Virak is actually leaving with his handicap’s dad. They are really poor, and it’s dangerous for Saronne to keep leaving with her father, as he is co-locating the room with other men. 

                                                            Maira, Saronne and her Mum

Maira, our social worker, who is already assisting another girl, offered to take her at her place. But for this action to be realized our Association needs additional funds. We managed to get fund from donors since now, but it starts to be very difficult at this point of crisis. Saronne was going to school, despite their poverty, she was in grade 6 before her mother died.

 Before she died, the couple could earn just enough per month for the 2 children to go to school and to survive. Both parents were working. But since the mother died, it is not possible for the father to manage to earn enough to have the 2 kids to go to school anymore and both of the children Virak and Saronne had to collect the rubbish to help his handicap father. 

                                                                  Saronne and Sothea

So, with the help of Shanty town Spirit and nice hearted people, Maira manage to take Saronne in her home to give her a decent life and a decent education. Saronne is now going to private school, she is doing school online at the moment and excel very good. 

In order for her to go to school and to help Maira to give her a good life, Shanty Town Spirit needs 150 dollars per month, this amount will cover education, food, hygiene and all the other think that a little girl would need. 

Before the mother died, Maira was helping this family and keep on fighting to help this poor family as much as she can. Saronne needs help right now, we are counted on generous people like you to help Shanty Town Spirit and Maira to give her a good life.

 Thank you for her.

                                            

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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.