3049 THA-Cambodia DBCF 20 years
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Cambodia - serving the poor and the marginalised

PHNOM PENH: 12 April 2012 --  The Don Bosco Children Fund in Cambodia celebrated twenty years of love and service (1992-2012) with activities that it promote3s under the acronym HELP: H-Health, E-Education, L-Love, P-Protection. The aim of the Fund is to educate children and build their future.

To mark this memorable event, the DBCF management paused to give its mission partners, the staff and teachers-volunteers their Loyalty Awards for service, awards recognising five, ten, fifteen, twenty years respectively with certificates and plaques of loyalty. This ceremony took place on 11th April 2012 in the presence of the management, teachers and students of Don Bosco Technical School, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

DBCF ha served 9,318 poor and marginalised children and presently: 4,455 children are still in the program to access to compulsory Basic Elementary and Literacy Education,
while a further 490 PLHA children (People Living with HIV/AIDS) are offered health and opportunities to education like any ordinary child in Cambodia-

11th April 2012 focused on the valuable contribution of commitment and care of its mission partners - the staff and teachers, and volunteers.


















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