Introduction & Overview

HFTN is working in partnership with CHO - Cambodian Hope Organization in Poipet. CHO is a local Non-Government Organization registered with the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Rural Development in June 2002.

Cambodian Hope Organization Website - click here CHO – Cambodian Hope Organization

The UN ranks Cambodia as one of the world’s poorest countries and the people of Poipet have very little. As a border town Poipet is full of Cambodians hoping to find work in Thailand. Many fail and join the huge slum communities, becoming drawn into the town’s underground world of illegal gambling, prostitution, and sex trafficking. At particular risk are the 300 street children who daily carry packages across the border for the equivalent of only seven pence a time, and sleep rough at night. Many of these children are kidnapped, trafficked across the border and forced to work in the international sex trade.

Immediate Objectives/Purpose:
1. To provide basic life-skills training to at-risk children and women
2. To promote child rights and raise awareness of trafficking through training
3. To promote enhanced primary health care & HIV/AIDS care through education
4. To promote home vegetable gardening by providing training, community and school demonstrations, & follow-up support
5. To provide income-generation opportunities through micro-loans, Clothes Community Industry, and Carpets for Communities
6. To provide spiritual guidance via evangelism & various media

Target Group:
1. Children whose parents are HIV/AIDS positive
2. Children from landless families
3. Children from families where one or more parents has disability
4. Children & women at-risk of rape, exploitation and trafficking
5. Children from families with drug abuse, alcoholism, or incarceration
6. Children from the poorest of poor families with more than 3 children

"Mat" School in the surrounding village

Motorcylce training for youth

Sewing Project