Letter from Marie Cammal

September 2nd, 2009

Dear sponsors, dear donors, dear friends,

I am pleased to announce that we had 60% success at the National Exam (end of high school), resulting from considerable studying efforts on the part of our young men and women. We will help this year six academics: one who is in 2nd year of Pharmacy, two starting their Law studies, and three starting in Arts and Humanities. This will represent a significant cost, so we would be very pleased to have new sponsors for our young people. Our goal in this program as in others is to give them better job prospects so they may in turn provide for their family situation and be able to bring their family out of a very great poverty.

We inform all our sponsors that we have, for many years, helped the families of our children, initially through land acquisition or house building/repairs to improve their status in their community, but also with health support (especially mothers giving birth) and a bag of rice per month. We will continue for it is a mean to lower the distortion/gap between assistance to children and their family status. In order to provide security for children, to avoid the guilt of the children to their family situation, assistance to parents has been very important in our project for several years. Noticeable improvement is spotted in the families’ situation such as a better job, a more autonomous management of their budget. They are also very satisfied with the progress of their children at a social level and in their studies. They are very grateful of what they recognize as an invaluable contribution to their children’s future.

For this new school year, our fees have been enormous, because children are sent to one of the best schools teaching in Khmer. They also have more important needs as they grow up and undertake higher level studies, in terms of equipment and books. I note and I am very pleased that, after 10 years, these children can have a future for them and their family. Without the unconditional support from you, sponsors and donors, we wouldn’t have been able to help almost one hundred families in the past 10 year.

We have now children that are supported within Sok Sabay and our New House, but also outside Sok Sabay, for their school fees and for their daily life in their family, which reduces the number of children to manage every day. Our first concern is to maintain our efforts to help our children and their families over several years.

We are always eager to find sponsors for our children at Sok Sabay and for our students. Any help in this direction would be greatly appreciated!

I hope this letter reaches you well,

Yours sincerely,

Marie Cammal

See more about Marie here.