Unshakable Activism

Photos for the article “Unshakable Activism: One Woman Brings Hope to Cambodian Kids,” By Elizabeth Eidlitz. Credit for all except one photo goes to Nancy Hendrie.

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 Sophomore and junior girls, fully sponsored by The Sharing Foundation at several Phnom Penh universities. Soparoth Leng (second from right) decided not to drop out of college after “Elephant and Dr. Nancy” opened her eyes about her “crazy dream” of becoming a house servant in Malaysia. Soparoth had been enticed by a misleading radio ad targeting young women in Cambodia and disguising a life of slavery and prostitution.
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Roteang Orphanage children at bath time, with their nannies.
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 Workers at The Sharing Foundation farm outreach project pack beans to sell in Phnom Penh. Produce is shared among the families, and participants are paid $2 a day. In Cambodia, $15 clothes a family of four, and a new home can be built for $450.
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 Preschooler, Chan Piseth, 4, at the steps of Roteang Orphanage, gives the customary Cambodian greeting to Hendrie, the photographer.
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Illiterate farm workers send their children to The Sharing Foundation Khmer Literacy School, built on the edge of the fields. Cambodian students consider going to school a great privilege. Attention Deficit Disorder, behavioral problems, and even asthma are essentially nonexistent.
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 Sok Neath, age four, helps Chan Kim Leng (known as “Elephant”), The Sharing Foundation’s in-country director, learn to use a laptop donated to Roteang Orphanage.
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 Three sessions a day at The Sharing Foundation's two-room Khmer literacy school serve more than 135 children daily. Originally resistant to any education, the illiterate parents now take great pride in their schoolchildren, many of whom have been able to go from this Head Start-type initiative to the local public school.
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Lach Phos, age twelve, says, “My mother gave me a girl's name because she said I was beautiful, even though I was born with only one leg. I can work and play like other kids, though sometimes I am insulted by my friends because of my handicap. Now that I have sponsor from The Sharing Foundation, I know that I am beautiful.”
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 credit: Ruth Armknecht Nancy Hendrie ’54 with Vuthea Tep, an orphaned eighth grader. Vuthea writes that Hendrie “changed my life to be good and makes me have brilliant future.”
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 Owens House in Phnom Penh is funded by the family of Martha Ives Owens ’66 in memory of Martha, her husband, Bob, and two daughters who died in the Lockerbie disaster. HIV-infected pregnant women come from the countryside in the last months of pregnancy to live here and learn about HIV, child care, and clean-water preparation for bottle-feeding. Mother and newborn receive medication that radically reduces HIV transmission.
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At Roteang Orphanage, permanent nannies (rather than changing caregivers) are assigned to children in a 1:2 ratio. Here are some nannies and children on the playground.
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 Sixteen-year-old Sina, the orphaned head of a family with ten- and twelve-year-old siblings, learns to make school uniforms during four months of paid vocational training at The Sharing Foundation’s self-sustaining sewing school. The foundation will donate 1,400 uniforms this year to Cambodian children so they can attend school. Sewing graduates make silk purses, tote bags, and backpacks sold in the United States.
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 Seriously handicapped children have one-on-one nanny care at Roteang Orphanage. Pictured are five-year-old Srey Luth, who has severe cerebral palsy, with her personal nanny, Bin Sovann.
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