Children of Cambodia

On our way back from Cambodia we happened to be in the same truck load as some other trekkers, one of them had the saddest story ever.

She traveled alone but some friends she met up with had asked for a taxi driver to take them someplace. The taxi driver misunderstood and took them to a building that had a bunch of cages inside of it. Inside of the cages where children. Perfectly normal children that the owners rented out by the hour. So your imagination does need to work anymore, these children were molested for money. The only people that could afford such atrosityies would not come from Cambodia.

It is enough to make me want to throw up. The lady said that their parents were poor village parents and were given a promise that their children would be given a good education and bring them money as well.

I guess all I can say at this point is please pray. Cambodia is a desperately poor country which makes the government also desperately poor and open to corruption big time. These people who are running this operation I talked about above could easily be paying off the government.

One encouraging thing is when we arrived in Cambodia we were met with several billboards that acknowledged the problem but made it very clear anyone caught would be placed in prison in Cambodia and in their own country.

I could go on about the other children we met. Ones that lived out on the street by themselves, ones that worked half the day trying to sell fruit to foreigners so they could go to school in the afternoon. Makes you want to buy everything from all of them.

But I implore each of you reading this. Please lift the children of Cambodia up to our heavenly Father. He sees the sparrow fall and He feels the pain of each of these children. He also has the power to change it but is waiting to hear from us.

More pics from the past...

Kenny's family, this picture is for you. All packed up for Pak. Quite the pair!
This is back a couple weeks on the way to the bus station when Buck left us. boo hoo

On the boat on the way to the border. Four our trip....very fun. We were inside most of the time but for the last part we went up top with the other foreigners.

Such an awesome trip together. :)

Enjoying the sun and a shake. :) So relaxing. :)
Beautiful sunsets. Don't ask about the sunrise. :)
"You buy a skirt today???" So many little kids out by the water wanting to sell skirts, fruit, bracelets, etc etc
so so hot when we were not by the water. too hot to smile. :)
One evening Linds and I went to a massage called "seeing Hands massage." It's a fundraiser for the blind and all the people who give the massages are blind. I don't remember most of it 'cause I fell asleep!!
Playing with some of the CAmbodian kids in the water.
A 15 day old baby boy and his sister on the street with their mom.
Randy with a wonderful Asian fruit shake! :)
Brothers .... on a cycle pulled little carriage thing in Cambodia.
This is the baby that was so unresponsive and the mother said she didn't have enough milk to fead it. I just wanted to take it home with me.
We spent some time playing games with the kids by the river in Cambodia. So many children that beg for food each day...they crave love and attention and thought playing games and getting a balloon was the greatest!!!
A little beggar girl that we gave our food to.

Wright Dee picked up a mat that I was going to carry to the truck and when I told him that I would carry it he took off running like a boy and I couldn't catch him!! He thought it was the funneist ever!!!
Sorry this is sideways . : (
Here's one of the little cuties at the Karen village. We didn't pass out UMAD packs here, we just had church services with them.

trips to the Karen

Preparing our food in a Karen village.




On the Burma side by the river.... Randy, Rach, Linds and Michael
This little monkey was so spoiled. When it was time for me to go he clung to me and cried and cried and then when I finally got away from him he got so mad at me and acted like he hated me. :(
Maria found a package that was from her mom Dorothy!! :)

I found a package that was from my fam!! :)


These boys are all excited about the things they received.



We went by boat over the boarder into Burma to a refuge camp and gave most of the kids there UMAD bags. We didn't know how many kids would be there and God really multiplied because we were able to give one to ever child from 6-16 except for one 16 yr old boy.
Some of the kids at one of the hostels we gave packages to.

Playing games with the kids. They hardly knew what games were and May taught them some and they had such a blast. :)




Hey there everybody again. HEre are some pics for you to look at.