Acodo Children

Rong Rat was born in Thnolbondory village , Preahdak commune, Bonteaysrey district, Siem Reap province. Her parents were divorced.

She has four siblings, two sisters and two brothers. She is a twin and her twin sister is Rong Roeung. She stayed with her mother in Cambodian Women’s Crisis Center (CWCC) before staying in ACODO. This year is her new academic year. She is studying in grade one of Mukneak Primary School near to the orphanage where she stay. She loves to study so much and she is never absent. She was taken to stay at the orphanage by her mother, because she divorced her husband and she cannot raise her four children on her own. Her husband usually gets drunk and hit her a lot. She could not live with the domestic violence and she decided to divorce her husband.   

In ACODO, she has been provided with shelters, sustenance, through regularly feeding three times of meals per day, daily supplies - clothes, shoes, mosquito nets, blankets, mattress, medical supplies, school supplies, especially rice supplies and other things to use every day.

Furthermore, she has been provided with one hour per day of learning English with voluntary teachers who came from different countries around the world and two hours of practicing Khmer traditional dancing.

After practicing Monkey and Coconut Dance for a few months, she becomes a Monkey and Coconut dancer. She performs on the stage at the orphanage at 6:30 every evening. Visitors look surprised at her fantastic dancing on the stage.

Besides those, she has been regularly sent to public school the same as other children with parents as well.

She is very lucky to have been accepted to live in ACODO orphanage and so she can study many subjects and get much more support. Especially, she can study the skills of Khmer traditional dancing.
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 All of the children who were selected to stay in ACODO’s orphanage were considered in three ways:
 
1. Children who are orphaned. Most of them are street children or vagabonds who have no home and eat spoiled food from the garbage.
 
2. Children who have only a mother or father because their parents were divorced and/or relatives who are separated from their families and have poor living conditions.
 
3. Children who have parents from indigent families. There are too many children in their families to support.
 
Before children are accepted into the orphanage, ACODO researched their backgrounds with family interviews as well as transcripts from the chief village officer or the chief commune officer and corresponding authorities. This is to assure that the children are truly orphaned and that they are from indigent families or single parent families with poor living conditions.
 
All the children staying in ACODO’s orphanage are provided with education including Khmer studies at state school and English  at the orphanage with the voluntary teachers as well as accommodation, three meals per day, supplies and health care.