Orphans and staff prepare to distribute cooking oil

We often get criticized for building dependency. To which we plead, “Guilty as charged”. What do you call your kids on your tax forms? “Dependents”, right? How, and why, would you expect kids to be self sufficient?

Now, the part you don’t hear is that they don’t stay that way! We teach them a profession, or a trade, and they go on to become leaders in their communities. We have cared for about 4,000 kids that are no longer under our provision. They are working as doctors, lawyers, farmers, fishermen, pastors, businessmen, and productive workers all over Cambodia.

Everyone needs a little help to get going, so that’s what we do. Like the help we get from Gleanings for the Hungry, and other partners. Kids need to eat, and the oil we just received sure helped! Cooking oil is $8.00 per gallon!  How are orphans supposed to buy that?