Open Arms Cambodia

March News

Hi folks we hope and pray that you all have a blessed Easter .

Alabaster house is getting so busy we may have to look for a bigger premises. Alabaster is not a huge place and we are getting up to twenty women and six children nightly. One thing I notice us that they are all good mothers they truly love their children and try there best to look after them .

All of these people are homeless and in great need they need love care food and medical attention the medical need is great mostly because of lifestyle lack of money and knowledge but we have hope that it will change for them.

We have hired three new staff they are all just lovely and kind , the transgender boy keeps them laughing all the time he gave $5 of his pay to help the women how lovely and he looks so fresh and clean now and he works very hard.

We are now networking with an organisation to get a team of doctors to come into the red light district every three months to do STD checks and to teach the folks how to stay safe sexually .

The children are truly amazing they are just looking healthy and are full of fun and are very open now to discuss issues with us . They are  taught Good Touch Bad Touch weekly and are responding to that , the feeding  program is small but we had to start somewhere .

Folks I am unashamedly asking again if you would pray about supporting

Alabaster financially , the cost  is rising each day and to care for the people.

The Salon , training and cafe are going ok business is hard these days as there are so many salons and cafe around but we are managing to pay our bills .

We have just started a apprenticeship program and have signed up one young woman , the idea is that they come into training as a student then they come into the salon for the next two years to really learnt the ropes they are  paid an income from Open Arms as they train.

So again if anybody would like to support a girl in this we would be very grateful , we are hoping to have four girls and the wage would be $170usd per month we would like to be able to do this ourselves but we can’t at the moment , unfortunately there is no tax deductibility available for any donations to Open Arms Business .

Most of you know sreyna and that she was married on 18 Th March so I thought I would attach a few of the wedding  photos , Facebook was flooded with them but if your not on our page you wouldn’t have seen any.

Really it was such a joy to see a young woman from horrible situations come into Christian care and flourish the way she has and we are sure  that her and Dim her husband will have a great future together we pray all blessings over the,.

Manny blessings

Grahame , Sandra and the Open Arms Family .

Newsletter February 2018

Grahame and I head back to Cambodia on Tuesday 12th February as always the young ones have done a wonderful job of looking after Open Arms . we are very grateful to our women’s leader Deakson  who has been with us eleven years now as she keeps things calm and gives good advice when things get shaky.

The Training / Business side of Open Arms has now had seven months of self sufficiency , I can’t say it’s been easy but month by month we meet our commitments.

Rehoboth Prayer Room continues to bless the community and us all in Open Arms.

We are getting bookings  for Home Stay now so that will financially help .

The cafe continues to grow with catering being the strongest part of the hospitality part of Open Arms Sreynait is training again and enjoying it .

We are going to take on apprentices in the salon , how this will work is that girls / boys will train for the twelve months then we will take some of them into the salon on the two year apprenticeship  this will bring their skill to a higher level.

ALABASTER .

This is lengthy but it really shows all about the work.

As I have mentioned before all your donations now go to Alabaster House which is situated in the Red Light district of Phnom Penh.

In May this year we will have been in this area for four years , there have been many ups and downs but we are more than excited about the vision we have for 2018.

Here are the staff that so faithfully serve these broken people , they are extraordinary people they love and care unconditionally . These women have no official training but all you need is love and these ladies have buckets of that .

Alabaster Ladies

Deakson – Womens Leader

Senait     –  Carer

Pony.       –  Carer

Sreynait  –  Worship Leader and Trainer

Lita.         –  Administration

Alabaster Children

Jenna – Teacher / Youth

Chiva  –  Assistant Teacher / Youth

Lita     –   Administration / Youth

Sreyna – Youth

Dim      – Youth

Mol.     – Youth

Sreynean – Youth

Pov – Youth

So what’s happening in 2018 at Alabaster .

WOMEN.

Nightly care from 5pm to 7am five nights a week.

The women are offered unconditional love and care .

They have devotions and bible studies.

They are given a good home cooked dinner and breakfast.

They bathe and they do there washing .

They are all given a antibiotic three monthly that is helping there physical bodies  .

They are offered free medical care .

They are offered any type of training they would like that would lead to a different better lifestyle.

After all of that they sleep like babies as they are safe isn’t that wonderful some of them hadn’t been safe for years as they slept on the streets of Phnom Penh.

Women Day Care started 2018. / At the moment it is just two days a week .

Day 1.

Worship / Sreynait mostly singing to them .

Craft / Sitting  in a circle chatting that’s great councilling

Cooking lessons for the community as well as thee ladies .

Day 2. Training

Self Love / Unconditional love of Christ

Housekeeping

Parenting

Hygiene

Conflict resolution

Alabaster Little Eagles / Five  days a week 9.30am to 5 pm

There are mostly 28 children come each day .

ALABASTER Little Eagle RULE/ From Jenna

1. Love each other

2. Be kind

3. Do not Fighting

4. Listen with your ear hear with your heart

5. Love and obey the teacher

6. Once come in the class do not go out until finish

Daily Activities .

Prayer / Memory verse

Self Care / Child Protection Good Touch Bad Touch

Craft / Games

English

Computer .

Snacks

This is a very big part of the new vision for the area .

Open Arms will be starting a feeding program fir the children .

The teachers have identified that many children are going to school with an empty tummy .

There are two sections of school a day here in Cambodia one morning one afternoon , so we want to supply food for both of those groups .

We would like to create employment for a lady in the community to be the cook .

Folks we need funding for this would you prayfully  consider helping in this feeding program.

Salary $100    per month

Food.  $ 300  per month .

It was such a long newslett

Thank you all for your ,ice care and support .

Grahame Sandra and the Open Arms Family

er but I hope you enjoyed it.

Merry Christmas!

Alabaster kids

Open Arms very some special friend teaching the Alabaster children how to play the ukulele very cute indeed , you have to see these babies worship to believe it God’s doing an amazing work in these children thanks team for your commitment, love and care.

Newsletter march 2017