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Healing Cambodia One Child at a Time : The Story of Krousar Thmey, a New Family

by Bénito Duchâteau-Arminjon
$10.48
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Healing Cambodia One Child at a Time : The Story of Krousar Thmey, a New Family - Thryft

Healing Cambodia: A tale of hope and resilience.

This book is recommended for those who are interested in reading inspiring stories of human resilience and the power of individual action in helping a community overcome adversity. In this book, the author, Benoit Duchateau-Arminjon, takes the readers on a journey of his experiences setting up a welfare center for abandoned children in Cambodia, and how he created the foundation Krousar Thmey, or new family, to support these children. The book offers a unique insight into the humanitarian world and the challenges faced by communities dealing with the aftermath of wars and conflict. This book is a must-read for anyone looking for inspiring stories of people making a positive impact in the world.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Healing Cambodia One Child at a Time : The Story of Krousar Thmey, a New Family

by Bénito Duchâteau-Arminjon
$10.48
ISBN: 9789814385404
Authors: Bénito Duchâteau-Arminjon
Publisher: Didier Millet
Date of Publication: 2013-02-26
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Biographies & Memoirs, Personal Development, History, Sociology
Related Topics: Inspirational, Biography Memoir, Biography, Social Issues, Memoir, Social Justice, Poverty, History, Personal Development, Parenting
Goodreads rating: 4.25
(rated by 4 readers)

Description

After years of civil war, the bloody Khmer Rouge regime, and occupation by Vietnam, Cambodia finds itself decimated and divided.Benoît Duchâteau-Arminjon, a.k.a. Bénito, discovers this world when he visits a refugee camp on the country’s border with Thailand and experiences a profound emotional shock. He decides to put his promising career as a financial controller on hold and spend a year setting up a welfare center for abandoned children.Since then, he has devoted his life to these children through the foundation he established in 1991—Krousar Thmey—or “new family.” A talented manager, Bénito set up a well-run organization and gradually turned its operation over to Cambodians. As of 2012, a staff of 400 is supporting some 4,000 children in welfare centers for street children, family shelters, and schools for blind or deaf children. In this context, Khmer Braille and Khmer Sign Language were developed, for the first time allowing children with these disabilities to get an education.Krousar Thmey was the recipient of the Human Rights Prize granted by the French Republic in 2003 and UNESCO’s Wenhui Award in 2010.The foundation marked its 20th anniversary in 2011.In October 2012 in New York, Bénito received the World of Children Humanitarian Award, hailed in the media as the “Nobel Prize for child advocates.”As he tells his story, Bénito, who was granted Cambodian citizenship by King Norodom Sihanouk and Prime Minister Hun Sen in 2000, helps lift us out of cliché-ridden discourse to take a fresh look at the humanitarian world.
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Healing Cambodia: A tale of hope and resilience.

This book is recommended for those who are interested in reading inspiring stories of human resilience and the power of individual action in helping a community overcome adversity. In this book, the author, Benoit Duchateau-Arminjon, takes the readers on a journey of his experiences setting up a welfare center for abandoned children in Cambodia, and how he created the foundation Krousar Thmey, or new family, to support these children. The book offers a unique insight into the humanitarian world and the challenges faced by communities dealing with the aftermath of wars and conflict. This book is a must-read for anyone looking for inspiring stories of people making a positive impact in the world.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.