Sports can play a part in the healthy growth and development of children. In a recent survey we conducted of 100 boys and girls: 100% reported that participating in sports helps them make new friends 99% reported that participating...
With the rapid development in Sihanoukville, hundreds of poor families from the countryside are moving to the city to work on local construction projects. This often involves moving from one site to another when a building is finished. Many...
Some of the families we work with, like many parents around the world, struggle to find safe, affordable child care. Such was the case for Sreymom* and her husband. The young couple had moved to Sihanoukville from the countryside...
Scheduling clean up days at local beaches is one of the ways M’Lop Tapang is teaching Cambodian children and youth about environmental awareness. Increasing trash is a growing problem in Sihanoukville. Read more: ” ‘Mountains and mountains of plastic’:...
Last weekend the local police department contacted our Hotline for assistance in helping to find the family of a little 3 year old boy who was lost. The police had become aware of the boy when neighbors told them...
18-year old Vanna*, the youngest of seven children in his family, grew up in a poor rural rice farming area outside of Sihanoukville. He dropped out of school in Grade 3 because his parents couldn’t afford to send...
“My older brother and sister stopped school in Grade 6. I want to be the first person in my family to graduate from high school.” 15 year old Makara* had to drop out of school in Grade 3 because...
M’Lop Tapang’s Vocational Training Programs help vulnerable youth secure decent work that will allow them to lead a more dignified life. Areas of training include sewing, bicycle and motor repair, electrics and plumbing, and cookery and hospitality. 18 year...
16 year old Theary* is in grade 11 now. She is one of more than 1,100 Cambodian students from poor families that are being supported to attend local public schools here in Sihanoukville through M’Lop Tapang’s “Back to School”...
Monitoring and evaluation of all of our programs is important. In June, 2018 an external evaluation of our Vocational Training Programs and Employment Services was completed. View the complete report here: http://mloptapang.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/External-Evaluation-of-MLop-Tapangs-Vocational-Training-and-Employment-Services-Programs-June-2018.pdf
