We’ve all heard the saying, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, but teach him to fish and you feed him for a lifetime!” As our team put our Project Proposal together, we kept our projects focused on ways to empower the Cambodians to help themselves. By bringing the power of TRUTH, values and education back to the family, we believe we will see a new generation of children and families rise up with the hope that we have in Jesus!

It’s been quite a season of change for everyone in the slum; the new school year started, torrential rains filling their homes almost every night, and at least 20 more families were moved out to the “New Land.”

We still have kid’s club in the public school which the kids continue to love and will stand in heavy rain for hours waiting on our team to come! They have grown so much in their knowledge of God and have learned to call on Him in prayer! It’s so encouraging from 3 years ago when they didn’t know who Jesus was at all! Now they are dreaming big and have hope for an abundant future!

The family that allowed us to do clinics and cell groups in their home has now moved, but they insist we use their house in the “New Land” to continue the work. The “Ma” (as we all call her) has hopes that a church will eventually be started there as well! Amen!

It is such an exciting time as 2 members of our team have returned from other fields, we’re starting clinics and cell groups in the “New Land,” and we have many church and YWAM teams joining us for Evangelism and Medical Assistance.

Most of the families moved to the “New Land” are too far away from their old jobs so are looking for new ways to make money. We believe that now is an important time to encourage and train them so they won’t return their old desperate ways of making money (such as drugs, prostitution, stealing, etc.). So we have asked some of the families to come up plans and budgets for new businesses so they can see what it takes to start one there. If they are ready and willing to start small, we offer them advice and small loans to get started. One lady set up a noodle stall next to the factory, so when all the ladies go on break, they come for a meal! She’s worked so hard and now has a booming little business. All starting from about $60! Other families are still searching or need help for strategies and money management, so hopefully we can assist in that as well once we’re able to open some kind of center there.

Thank you for all those praying for Mony, the boy addicted to drugs. He finished his 3-month stay in the rehabilitation center, and returned to his family who now lives in “New Land” as well. It is good he is not in the slum surrounded by temptation to return to drugs, but is in great need of emotional healing, encouragement and new friends. So please continue to cry out for this 22-year old who is in great need of a revelation of God’s Love!

Friends in Taiwan who read our last newsletter about all the pregnant ladies in the slum recently sent us a huge box of baby clothes and accessories. So we plan to have a Baby Shower for their families soon! It’s such an honor to be able to celebrate new life and to bring value to children where the Light needs to be shown!

If you would like any further information
about any aspect of this work,
please contact us at:

University of the Nations - Children At Risk
PO Box 1415
Phnom Penh, Cambodia

car@uofncambodia.org