Franklin Graham joined local church leaders in sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with boys and girls while delivering gift-filled shoeboxes to them at a recent Operation Christmas Child outreach event in Cambodia’s capital. Eight-year-old Votey received a shoebox, making her one of more than 1 million children in Cambodia to receive such a gift…
Water, Sanitation & Hygiene
Clean Water Changes Lives in Cambodia
When dry season arrived in Cambodia, Chivy’s* family did not expect to spend nearly a month suffering from a stomach illness. Chivy, 11, and her siblings missed school because they were sick. Her parents were also sick and couldn’t work. The family’s meager savings quickly dried up as they struggled to recover. All of these…
Women's Programs
A Mother in Cambodia Learns How to Better Care for Her Family
Sreymon was struggling to care for her baby and she didn’t know where to turn for help. In her remote village in Cambodia, she had never had an opportunity to learn certain essentials, such as recognizing the signs of malnutrition or how to practice healthy hygiene. Deeply-embedded cultural superstitions also contributed to Sreymon’s confusion and…
Animals, Agriculture & Livelihoods
Livelihoods Training Boosts Income for Farming Family
Den was devastated when a drought ruined the rice fields he had worked so hard to cultivate. Den and his wife, Chreop, had no other way to support their four children, and they were buried under a mountain of debt. Feeling hopeless and desperate, Den and Chreop decided their only option was to migrate from…
50 Years of Ministry
Providing Decades of Clean Water
In the fourth chapter of the Gospel of John, Jesus meets a Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well and asks her for a drink of water. As they talk, Jesus tells her about “living water,” which puzzles her. “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that…
Animals, Agriculture & Livelihoods
From Garden to Kingdom
From Garden to Kingdom Little seeds Buried in freshly turned earth Watered, encouraged Spring from darkness to light A miracle Tended, nurtured The plants grow green and strong Blossoming Flourishing seeds Now producing their fruit Ripened, harvested, washed Hungry? Ready to eat! Or prepared for market Sold—Joy! Income yields health Blessings Gospel seeds Hearts open to…
Crisis & Disaster Response
The Cambodian Exodus
Andrew Conard works with Samaritan’s Purse in Cambodia as a water, sanitation, and hygiene program manager. In my three years in Cambodia, I’ve never seen anything like it. I’m working at the Samaritan’s Purse distribution point set up at the Thailand-Cambodian border in Poipet to provide food and water to the more than 100,000 Cambodians…
Animals, Agriculture & Livelihoods
Franklin Graham and Greta Van Susteren Visit Remote Cambodian Villages
Franklin Graham; Greta Van Susteren; and Van Susteren’s husband, John Coale, visited two Cambodian villages near the Thailand border on November 16. Samaritan’s Purse has teamed up with Van Susteren and Coale to bring relief to hundreds of families in Yeay Ort and Chouk Chey. The villages have suffered from drought for several consecutive years,…
Discipleship, Education & Training
Anti-Trafficking Programs Help Families in Cambodia
Morning’s first light brought the promise of a long day for those already making their way across the Cambodia border into Thailand. The work awaiting them, likely in construction or agriculture, would prove brutal in the smothering heat. For families from impoverished Cambodian villages—where there’s no means of earning an income—survival depends on finding a…
Water, Sanitation & Hygiene
Transforming Cambodia
by Chum Peou, a Water For Kids national intern in Cambodia Cambodia has had a dark past riddled with war and genocide. Even after gaining independence at the beginning of 1979, living conditions weren’t good. People struggled to survive and still feared execution. As the fear of executions waned, the poor living habits and sanitation…
