Here is some random updates and pictures on Cambodia!
We have been staying pretty busy here in Phnom Penh. I got to go out to one of the provinces to visit with a few of the sponsored children. The kids have been sponsored through New Life Church in a program called Cambodia’s Children at Risk. Sponsors pay about $30/month and the families get medicine, food, clothing and school supplies. It is a 3 year commitment and at the end of the sponsorship CC@R help the families start a small business so they can be self-sustaining. The main ways they can start a business is by purchasing a cow to breed, starting a small grocery stand, and getting a loom to weave fabrics.
This week there is a team from the Brooklyn Tabernacle who has come to give free medical clinics. I am excited to work with them later this week!
I have also made a good friend at one of the local markets, the “Russian Market”. Her name is Sow (at least phonetically it sounds like it!) and she is just so sweet! She is 23 and has lost both of her parents. She lives with her aunt and works from 5am to 6pm at the market serving drinks at their stand. I took them a few brownies today and promised to go back tomorrow and bring pictures of my friends and family in America. They blessed me with a free iced coffee (heavy on the sweetened condensed milk!).
Here are a few pics I have taken recently (some are from Stacy):
Here I am getting a $1 hair cut earlier today…maybe not the best decision, but hair grows, right?? 🙂
This is from cooking dinner last night. Hannah and I made a veggie curry, and it was actually really good!
This is Sow and her aunt at the Russian Market, please pray that they would see Jesus’ love in me.
This is one of the rice fields in the province. Seriously the greenest green I have ever seen, beautiful! 🙂
Thanks for the comments on prayers! 🙂
