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Brother Sun House Youth Center For youth gatherings, conferences, retreats. Get in contact.
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Welcome to Child Safe Tourism in Cambodia We love you visit our country. You will find kind people, many places to see and many activities to follow. ...And we invite you to protect our children. Please do not look for children for of sexual engagement. There are many adults in Cambodia ready to be your friend. Even if you think in Cambodia as a "free country" and a heaven for "sexual tourism", there are many foreigners behind bars in Cambodia charged with children abuse. International and national organizations for human rights and protection of children and women, work together to enforce strong legislations, so children can be protected from any transgression. Sexual tourism with
underage persons is in Cambodia.. According with USA, Canada and the European Community legislation, if someone abuses a child in Cambodia, he/she can be proceed in his/her own country. In Cambodia a minor (underage) person is legally any boy or girl under 18 years old. Many children will ask you money on the streets and beaches. If you give money to them, you are promoting beggars. Children who receive money from foreigners, do not attend school. Most of the money they get, are for adults who use the children. Most of that money end in beer and gambling. Here are some Cambodian organizations that work for the protection of children and women. If you feel sorry about the Cambodian children and women in poverty, support them better, so they can do more for them: If you are visiting Cambodia and see something irregular with a child like he/she is in danger of abuse, to the following numbers: ChildSafe Hotline: 012 – 311 112 - Phnom Penh | 012 478 100 - Sihanoukville - 012 181 7280 Siem Riep (Gov´t) (24/h, 7/days) - Phn Cambodian National Police: 023 997 919 If you feel sorry for any child and want to help him/her, please, . Just contact any of the institutions up. Some times the children can tell you stories to get your money or any adult can profit your good heart. Those organizations know the country and they can tell you how to help. Take care with adoptions Some persons look to countries like Cambodia to adopt children. It is well understood. However, take care. Human traffic nets can profit your good heart. Be patient and follow every single rule of the legislation of your own country first. Trust only in organizations credited by official authorities. Do not delegate in third parts. Be aware: there are countries that banned adoptions from Cambodia due to irregularities. Remember: you can adopt a child by distance too sponsoring his/her studies, food and clothe without taking him/her out of his/her own culture. Just get in touch with any of the organizations above and they will tell you how you can sponsor a child (for example Don Bosco Children Fund support more than 40 thousand children in Cambodia thanks to persons from many countries). Reading about adoptions from the "Adoption Council of Canada": Adoptions from Cambodia are still suspended, as of June 2004. The U.S. suspended adoptions from Cambodia on Dec. 21, 2001, based on confirmed reports of Cambodian children stolen from their birthmothers and placed for adoption with false documents. On Jan. 25, 2002 Cambodia confirmed it would suspend the adoption process, acknowledging the trafficking concerns. Prospective parents were urged to consider other countries, as the suspension would not likely be lifted in the foreseeable future. In March 2003, Canadian officials concluded that the adoption process in Cambodia is open to abuse and insufficiently protects the interests of the children and the birth and adoptive parents. On March 1-4, 2004 U.S. officials visited Cambodia to see the government's progress in approving more stringent adoption legislation and eliminating opportunities for fraud and baby selling. The fact-finding mission made no decision on the future of adoptions in Cambodia.
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Bienvenidos a Don Bosco
Sihanoukville
