Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Japanese NPO: Kamonohashi Project

Kamonohashi Project is founded in 2002 by three university students. One of founder, Ms. Murata, witnessed children in risk as sex slaves when she traveled to Thailand.
Her stories about these children touched many people's heart. Kamonohashi Project now has a community factory in near Siem Reap Cambodia to provide parents a job and children an education. Factory workers make bags, book cases, and more. Team Boravuth follows their mission and would like to support their project.

Give parents a Job, children an education.

The victims of the child sex industry all have something in common: the poverty of their families. To put it another way: those who don't have the abilities and skills to find employment (and a fair few who do too) are unable to get a job. We try, by offering vocational-training and employment opportunities for the poor in Cambodia, to provide a means to an income for families and in doing so, a measure of stability. A stable income means that a child can go to school, free from the danger of being sold into prostitution. Specifically, we have been operating our PC school since 2004, and since 2006, a handcrafts center. We have been able to provide opportunities for learning and working for many many people. We try to obtain business costs for small companies which enable rural Cambodians to make and sell their products in the city.

http://www.kamonohashi-project.net/english/