Pendant 4B - Lapis Lazuli - Afghanistan
THIS PIECE WILL FORM PART OF A RAFFLE PRIZE ON 18 MARCH!Pendant 4C - Rhodondite from South Africa
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Auction
The live auction will take place on 18 March at 7pm at Gasolina, Street 57, near BKK market. Come along if you can.
Bring your spare change to put on our 100 Riel Sculpture and enjoy art installations made from recycable material made by Mr. Khan Sophors (aka Sata)
Bring your spare change to put on our 100 Riel Sculpture and enjoy art installations made from recycable material made by Mr. Khan Sophors (aka Sata)
About CCH
All procceds from the auction will go to the Centre for Children's Happiness (CCH).
CCH was started in October 2002 by Mr Mech Sokha. The three centres that now form the CCH network and provide a home and education to over 140 children. The children are either orphans or belong to parents who cannot take care of them due to illness or disability. Most of the children at CCH previously worked as garbage pickers at the Steung Mean Chey landfill in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
The Steung Mean Chey Municipal landfill is located in southern Phnom Penh. It is in a part of the city with low-income neighbourhoods and slums. The dump itself covers about 6 hectares (approximately 2.5 acres). It is surrounded by private property on which rubbish pickers build makeshift huts and are charged extortionate rents by landowners. Roughly 2,000 people, about 600 of which are children, live and work there.
Some of the children working on the landfill have parents or relatives who also work on the dump and look after them. Most of them do not go to school, at least not on a regular basis. Virtually none of them will complete a primary school education. The school fees are too high and their families need them to collect rubbish to contribute to the family income. Adults earn, on average, 4000 to 6000 Riels (US$1.00 to $1.50) a day; children earn on average about half that amount. A whole family working together can actually earn more money than they could in the rural village from which they originally came.
Sokha’s vision for the Centres is to provide a safe, stable and loving home for the children, as well as to teach them to be good, productive citizens and to give them an education and vocational or university training so that they can become independent.
CCH was started in October 2002 by Mr Mech Sokha. The three centres that now form the CCH network and provide a home and education to over 140 children. The children are either orphans or belong to parents who cannot take care of them due to illness or disability. Most of the children at CCH previously worked as garbage pickers at the Steung Mean Chey landfill in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
The Steung Mean Chey Municipal landfill is located in southern Phnom Penh. It is in a part of the city with low-income neighbourhoods and slums. The dump itself covers about 6 hectares (approximately 2.5 acres). It is surrounded by private property on which rubbish pickers build makeshift huts and are charged extortionate rents by landowners. Roughly 2,000 people, about 600 of which are children, live and work there.
Some of the children working on the landfill have parents or relatives who also work on the dump and look after them. Most of them do not go to school, at least not on a regular basis. Virtually none of them will complete a primary school education. The school fees are too high and their families need them to collect rubbish to contribute to the family income. Adults earn, on average, 4000 to 6000 Riels (US$1.00 to $1.50) a day; children earn on average about half that amount. A whole family working together can actually earn more money than they could in the rural village from which they originally came.
Sokha’s vision for the Centres is to provide a safe, stable and loving home for the children, as well as to teach them to be good, productive citizens and to give them an education and vocational or university training so that they can become independent.
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