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"Supermarket shelves are near empty", Geraldine Cox lies desperately to save Sunrise Orphanage
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Such a heart breaking story with a great ending! Congrats GMJS and thanks for sharingGMJS-440 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 4:04 amI know someone who lived there from a very young age. I will cut out many details to keep it concise. This child was living in a facility with her siblings that was more of a rehab than an orphanage. It was very poor conditions, especially for her and her five brothers and sisters that had no drug addiction. The place did not want to release them so they had to run away in the night.horace wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 3:26 amName a few children whose lives have been made better by her! Don't cut copy n paste , from your own experience.GMJS-440 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 2:41 amThe claim about supermarkets doesn't appear to have been made by Geraldine, but rather the writer of the article.
Of course, that won't work for the keyboard warriors of Khmer440 who feel the need to attack a person and organization that has and continues to make lives better for countless Cambodian children.
They walked for days upon days, sleeping off the street and the eldest brothers sacrificing meals so the youngest could eat. Sharing a single cup of noodles among 6 people. Older gentlemen offering hundreds of dollars to the teen boys to buy their young sisters. They thought they had found salvation when they made it to a distant relatives' home. Unfortunately, he viewed them as slaves, not as people. To make matters worse would take out his drunken anger by beating the young boy brave enough to stand up to him.
They had to flee again, walking and walking as days blended into the next. They found a place called Sunrise. Finally, they all had what to them was a life-changing gift but for us is taken for granted. They had food to eat. They had a safe place to sleep. They had an education. They had a future.
Each of the siblings had opportunities that would have never been possible without Sunrise. The young lady grew into an adult and was able to become a dental nurse as facilitated by Sunrise. She learned English which helped in her work, but it also helped me to know her and fall in love with her, and now we are going strong years and 2 children later.
I have gone to visit Sunrise with her and met the lovely Geraldine myself. The gift given to my wife and her family is something I can never repay.
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God bless your familyGMJS-440 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 4:04 amI know someone who lived there from a very young age. I will cut out many details to keep it concise. This child was living in a facility with her siblings that was more of a rehab than an orphanage. It was very poor conditions, especially for her and her five brothers and sisters that had no drug addiction. The place did not want to release them so they had to run away in the night.horace wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 3:26 amName a few children whose lives have been made better by her! Don't cut copy n paste , from your own experience.GMJS-440 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 2:41 amThe claim about supermarkets doesn't appear to have been made by Geraldine, but rather the writer of the article.
Of course, that won't work for the keyboard warriors of Khmer440 who feel the need to attack a person and organization that has and continues to make lives better for countless Cambodian children.
They walked for days upon days, sleeping off the street and the eldest brothers sacrificing meals so the youngest could eat. Sharing a single cup of noodles among 6 people. Older gentlemen offering hundreds of dollars to the teen boys to buy their young sisters. They thought they had found salvation when they made it to a distant relatives' home. Unfortunately, he viewed them as slaves, not as people. To make matters worse would take out his drunken anger by beating the young boy brave enough to stand up to him.
They had to flee again, walking and walking as days blended into the next. They found a place called Sunrise. Finally, they all had what to them was a life-changing gift but for us is taken for granted. They had food to eat. They had a safe place to sleep. They had an education. They had a future.
Each of the siblings had opportunities that would have never been possible without Sunrise. The young lady grew into an adult and was able to become a dental nurse as facilitated by Sunrise. She learned English which helped in her work, but it also helped me to know her and fall in love with her, and now we are going strong years and 2 children later.
I have gone to visit Sunrise with her and met the lovely Geraldine myself. The gift given to my wife and her family is something I can never repay.
For those wondering if there are any kids who have benefitted from Geraldine's work, I personally know a few hundred of them. Though they are not kids, they are now fully grown adults living their own independent lives. You can imagine how they feel when they come across articles like this that smear their family and childhood, based on petty quotes from an interview that are taking out of context. Also Geraldine is very much aware of the issues in 2016 campaign. She was the person who ordered the removal of the photos, and terminate the jobs of the marketing team responsible. The question is, why are you still sharing those images? You are clearly aware of the issues in those images, yet you continue to post them. Don't blame Geraldine for that one. You, the writer of this article, are the person responsible for posting and sharing images of these children without their consent. Geraldine has already paid the price for that campaign and rectified the issue with the children and their families. If you care so much about those children, why are you sharing their images four years onwards? You can take this as an official complaint about your article.
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If the complaint is not stamped and written in angry letters we don’t accept it as official.sinan wrote: ↑Mon Jan 11, 2021 10:31 amYou can take this as an official complaint about your article.
This is an official response.
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Honestly, I don't know how he sleeps at night after posting stuff like that.sinan wrote: ↑Mon Jan 11, 2021 10:31 amYou, the writer of this article, are the person responsible for posting and sharing images of these children without their consent.
Perhaps Geraldine could help him get to sleep.
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I knew he was disabled.
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Based on your observations of the facts surrounding the deprived circumstances of broken families -- ie. parents incapable of raising their kids, who then end up in these good-hearted institutions -- well, wouldn't it have been so much better if their parents had never brought these poor kids into this world in the first place? ...Instead of needing institutions, proper prophylactic birth control should have been distributed by local authorities. My point simply being... without having such a great big surplus of kids from unviable homes, the hassle of having to establish "orphanages" in the first place certainly would have been prevented... Clearly, the name of orphanage here is a big misnomer for these Cambodian institutions, anyway...ផោមក្លិនស្អុយ wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 8:02 pmI remember a figure of c. 75% and that would have been from a unicef report about 6 years ago.Lucky Lucan wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 6:31 pmNot sure where you are getting the statistic from but it doesn't mean a lot. The reason many kids are in orphanages is because their (living) parents are incapable of looking after them. They could be destitute, disabled, have serious substance abuse issues, mental problems etc. Some children are taken away from abusive parents for their own safety, others are disabled themselves or have ongoing health issues the parents can't deal with.Orphan wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 3:57 pmThe problem with Cox , in riposte to all these well-meaning but misguided eulogies about her, is that the vast majority of the children in her care were not orphans - like many of the orphanages in Cambodia 85% + are not orphans.
What you said is all correct but many of these are reasons for short term separation while the families are assisted to rehabilitate. But lots of orphanages have kids in there for years and years with no efforts made in rehabilitation.
Those in orphanages who should be permanently separated from families are in the minority.
That said the situation is much better than it was 8-10 years ago. MOSAVY for all their faults have had some success here.
But oh well, one dare not pontificate about how to reduce the world's over-population, rather than figuring out how to run orphanages... because, then one is only heartless, or a socialist, or whatever...
A great miracle indeed -- if you could find a way to teach impoverished peasants not to breed like rabbits... However, the ignorance of the poor everywhere loves a bleeding Western heart, alas...
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You know the poor breed like rabbits in western countries too? Of course it would help if you "taught" them something that was more enjoyable than fucking, and cost less - but that's not about to happen.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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Its easy to say wouldn't it be better if these kids were never born, until you get to know some of them. See them grow up, and have families themselves.
Ask GMJS-440 if he thinks it would be better.
Ask GMJS-440 if he thinks it would be better.
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Well, one thing that really disturbs me are the exceedingly large number of geriatric Westerners who hook up with Cambodian women and then proceed to produce babies, as if they were 19th century Siamese royalty or Anthony Quinn himself...
I really think that the world is a juggernaut of overpopulation and, consequently, everything everywhere will remain in a state of serious environmental crises for decades to come. Look at the bush fires in Australia, the burning of California, the loss of Ft. McMurray in Canada a couple of years ago, not to mention the continuing destruction of forests by clear-cutting in the Amazon and Indo... etc, etc...
You men with Cambodian wives... If you married under the age of 50, and had children here in Cambodia with local women, you should be obliged to pay an annual head-tax of $500 dollars per year, per child, until the child reaches the age of 18... If you are a foreigner OVER the age of 50, who marries and bears children with a Cambodian wife, you should be obliged to pay a head-tax of $1000 dollars per year for each child until they reach maturity...
I really think that the world is a juggernaut of overpopulation and, consequently, everything everywhere will remain in a state of serious environmental crises for decades to come. Look at the bush fires in Australia, the burning of California, the loss of Ft. McMurray in Canada a couple of years ago, not to mention the continuing destruction of forests by clear-cutting in the Amazon and Indo... etc, etc...
You men with Cambodian wives... If you married under the age of 50, and had children here in Cambodia with local women, you should be obliged to pay an annual head-tax of $500 dollars per year, per child, until the child reaches the age of 18... If you are a foreigner OVER the age of 50, who marries and bears children with a Cambodian wife, you should be obliged to pay a head-tax of $1000 dollars per year for each child until they reach maturity...
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What's the reasoning behind this? Where will the money go?Orichá wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 1:21 pm
You men with Cambodian wives... If you married under the age of 50, and had children here in Cambodia with local women, you should be obliged to pay an annual head-tax of $500 dollars per year, per child, until the child reaches the age of 18... If you are a foreigner OVER the age of 50, who marries and bears children with a Cambodian wife, you should be obliged to pay a head-tax of $1000 dollars per year for each child until they reach maturity...
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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