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”.
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
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To support communities so as to improve their quality of life.
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Contact Ermine Norodom: +855 (0) 17 49 27 19 (French and English)
norodomermine@gmail.com
