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ABOUT CAMBODIA
Sandwiched between Thailand, Laos and Vietnam, Cambodia has long been fought
over. A mix of French and traditional Khmer buildings are testament to historic
wrestles for control. More recently the violent Khmer Rouge reign of 1975-1979
has scarred the country.
Area:
181,040 sq km (112,498 miles)
Major languages:
Khmer
Major religion:
Theravada Buddhism
Life expectancy:
TEAR FUND IN CAMBODIA – Task Women’s Health Project 59 years (men), 63 years (women),
61 years overall
TEAR Fund has been active in reaching out to Cambodia’s urban poor since Monetary unit:
2001. This particular project, Community Health Promotion: Women Health Riel
Project and Gender Training, is unique. It is a pioneering three-way partnership
between TEAR Fund donors, long-term partner SERVANTS and a local Main exports:
non-government organisation TASK. Textiles, tourism
With significant experience in the urban slums of South East Asia, TASK aims Human Development Index:
to train local women to identify and treat basic health issues. Combined with 131
the provision of reproductive health services and training, mortality and
incidence of disease will be reduced. Political regime:
Constitutional monarchy
This is particularly important in the target area of Khan Mean Chey, a province
of Phnom Penh. Khan Meay Chay is home to about 200,000 people, in large
industrial suburbs and slum/squatter communities at the edges of lakes, rivers
and swamps.
TASK has a staff of more than 20 trained health-care workers. They are retraining
Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) in reproductive healthcare. These TBAs then
provide appropriate health services to poor mothers pre-natal, at birth and
post-natal. Community educators facilitate continued meetings among mothers,
and integrate gender awareness into local health education.
The training of local women in health treatment and prevention, and in knowing
and exercising their rights, will substantially improve the lives of the most vulnerable.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
TEAR Fund partners with indigenous Christian organisations who carry out the work
themselves. Assistance is given regardless of beliefs.
Tear Fund takes an holistic approach to all of its projects which takes the local community
on a journey of transformation through improved physical, social and economic
PHOTO: Compassion
circumstances, and often on an individual level, spiritual change.
CONTACTS:
National Office: Freephone: 0800 800 777
PO Box 8315, Symonds St, Facsimile: (09) 629 1050
Auckland 1150 Email: enquiries@tearfund.org.nz
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