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  • Ukrainian Orphans
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    Ukrainian Orphans

    Children left behind face uncertainty. RW has provided financial grants for multiple families adopting children from Ukraine. Many of these children have been abandoned due to financial hardship and/or other varied needs. Ukraine has one of Europe’s highest number of children living in orphanages. Many more live on the streets. Statistics vary, but estimates are…

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  • More than an education…
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    More than an education…

    Schools offer hope, love, and attachment. RW currently supports three schools in Cambodia. Education is crucial for children seeking to break out of the cycle of poverty. These schools all focus on providing educational and career opportunities for these abandoned and at-risk children. However, education is not the only component of these schools that RW…

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  • New Kids at PE2
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    New Kids at PE2

    Odoum joins Asia’s Hope PE2, the home that RW sponsors, has some new additions. Odoum is one of the kids that recently moved to PE2. He was living with his mother, but she was unable to provide for his basic needs and Odoum was also unable to attend school. Social Affairs intervened and asked Asia’s…

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  • Catch Up Class Update
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    Catch Up Class Update

    Second semester is in full-swing The second semester of the Catch Up Class is in session and there are approximately 15 students attending. These students are picked up by Tuk Tuk (above) at the local landfill and taken to Love Without Boundaries’ school. This semester four students had made such progress they were able to…

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  • Building Strong Families
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    Building Strong Families

    Hope through family preservation In March, RW sent a check to Orphan’s Voice in Vietnam. They have multiple programs that focus on caring for abandoned and at risk children in Vietnam, including homes and therapy programs. This money was specifically directed to their Building Strong Families program. Through this program, Orphan’s Voice focuses one strengthening…

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  • Lifesong Outreach
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    Lifesong Outreach

    Education and Shelter Lifesong for Orphans has partnered with two pastors in Cambodia to provide needed resources for local at-risk and abandoned children. Near Sihanoukville, Cambodia, Lifesong has over 40 children living in their shelter as well as an additional 35-50 children (from the surrounding areas) attending daily classes. Most of these classes take place…

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  • Student Spotlight
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    Student Spotlight

    Catch Up Class provides opportunities for Nash Nash is an older student in the Catch Up Class program who has not been able to focus fully on his studies since he used to spend most of his time working with his mother in the dump site to help support his family. Even though Nash still…

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  • Hope in the Landfill
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    Hope in the Landfill

    Catch up class and education provides opportunity In Cambodia many desperate families live in landfills. They and their children spend their days searching for items to sell or recycle. Since the beginning of the pandemic, because of loss of employment, this number has grown. In addition to the unsanitary conditions, fires are burned throughout the…

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  • Reak’s New Home
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    Reak’s New Home

    Five new children placed at Asia’s Hope Asia’s Hope has grown by five children. These children have been placed in the Prek Eng 2 home, which Real Wood Floors sponsors. Reak, above, is 11 years old and in the 2nd grade. When his father died working on a construction site, Reak’s mother determined she was…

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  • Gender Gap in Education
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    Gender Gap in Education

    More girls than boys will never attend school in Southeast Asia Barriers to education are higher for girls than for boys. And poorer children are less likely to go to school than their peers from richer families. 81% girls compared to 42% boys. The poorest girls remain the most likely to never set foot in…

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