Some of our Cambodian staff know people or have family who are directly affected by the floods. In Prey Veng, several isolated are now facing a huge crisis. Their roads and crops are completely submerged under water which is four or five metres high. These people are now completely stranded and they are suffering from starvation. ABC Cambodia Radio is collecting food and emergency aid to give to the flood victims.
On Friday the Cambodia Daily newspaper
interviewed a group of 15 people, including children, who had been
stranded on high land for three weeks in the badly affected
south-eastern province of Prey Veng.
Hom Tey, a 35-year-old mother of five, said no government officials had visited.
“My family has only two kilos of rice left,” she said. “No one has offered aid to our families, no one sees our problem.”
Another villager said her five-hectare crop of rice had been destroyed.
“Next year I will have no rice to
eat,” said 48-year-old Nhorn Nheam. “Normally when we harvest the rice
we pay back the rent to the landowner, but I don't know how I can pay it
back.”
Cambodia Daily here
They urgently need:
- bottled water
- dry food
- canned food
- mosquito nets
- clothing
- torches
Last week we as a school were learning about Micah 6:13 "What the Lord requires of you is to act justly, love mercy and walk humbly before your God."
This is love in action
If you want to help these families in huge need contact us with how much you are willing to donate and we will buy the things from the list for friday or we will make contact with agencies we know who are woking in that area and give them the supplies or finances they need to help these families back on their feet.
For more details of floods see here
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