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| Newsletter | March 2010 |
Necklaces Made From Garbage |
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Dr. Garmon just returned from his 31st trip to Cambodia where People for Care and Learning provides "care and learning" opportunities for orphans, widows, and impoverished people all over Southeast Asia. I wanted to share with you a special necklace he brought back this time from the "garbage dump community" in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. This is the poorest of the poor community, where the people make their living from things they find in the trash. This young mother is making necklaces out of trash. |
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| She makes these necklaces from foil candy wrappers and paper clips. The foil wrappers are cut and folded around each paper clip, no glue or anything else holding it together. Ingenious! This is her home (above) and the hammock is where she and her baby sleep each night. The necklaces are her only support for her and her newborn child. | |
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| She gets her materials from the garbage dump where she lives. You can see the little girls below adding candy wrappers to her collection. We ordered several hundred necklaces from her and plan to give them away for a donation of $5. With your support we hope we can continue to help support her work, and thus her family. | |
| Below is a picture of the new homes that PCL is helping the Cambodian government to build to help remove these families from the Garbage Dump Community. Each section is a home for a family and costs $1,000 to build. This past week Dr. Garmon took $25,000 to purchase 25 homes in this new community of 300 homes. We hope to be able to purchase all 300 with the help of donors. You can see from the living conditions above that this will make a extreme difference in the lives of so many people. Just to have shelter from rains, storms, animals and to have a door to lock and provide safety as well is priceless! | |
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Several years ago, PCL built this beautiful children's home in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Here is Dr. Garmon with several of the children in their school uniforms. |
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| And just a short while ago we built two large barges to float on the Tonle Sap Lake providing medical care, preschool, classes, and all types of humanitarian aid to the several million Vietnamese refugees who live on the lake. Her are some of the children with the US Team. | |
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| One of our previous travelers. Rudy Wright, came back and installed $40,000 worth of solar equipment on the boats so we would have power not only for electricity but to sanitize the water with electric water filters and also to make ice for the local fishermen and families among many other things. | |
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Thanks Rudy!! |
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| There is more than I could possibly tell you about what People for Care and Learning (PCL) does in Southeast Asia. Check out our website for more info. http://www.peopleforcare.org/ | |