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.