Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Network Meeting - by Sophea


The Riverkids Foundation was officially registered as a local Cambodian NGO in 2007 by the Ministry of Interior and has since been working hand-in-hand with the Cambodian authorities and other NGOs to prevent child trafficking in Cambodia.

Riverkids has a clear vision and mission to provide equal opportunities to vulnerable children, allowing them to study at state schools and gain vocational training or specialist skills at recognized Vocation Training Centers.

Riverkids often holds parents meetings to share about family counseling, the importance of hygiene and basic health care and the support we could give to vulnerable families. We encourage and persuade the families to allow their children to study.

To strengthen our position in the area and drive our mission more fervently, Riverkids cooperates with numerous NGO partnerships that are working in the same area. This is so that we can share our practices, exchange ideas and implement our projects more effectively. Our staff are taught new professional skills during the seminars/workshops and have gained more experience in operating more effectively as a charity foundation.

Example on 5 to 6 November 2009, Riverkids Foundation sent 5 key staff members to participant in Chab Dai’s Networking Annual Member Meeting Product Fairs. The purpose of the meeting is to allow local and overseas members to network with one another, exchange new knowledge, professional skills, practices and experiences. We also get to hear testimonies of how projects were implemented successfully to benefit the vulnerable children, families, community, and the society.

At the end of the meeting, the morals of the participants are very high and everyone was extremely motivated to put the new techniques, methodologies and strategies acquired into practice to see more success in their area of work.

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