Chenda is 8 year old . She was born at the Krolan village, Trapengsek Commune Siem Reap, 10 km from the city. Chanda's father died 3 years ago from the HIV virus. Her mother also has the virus and she will die soon too.Her mother is living in their village still but no one wants her living there because of the virus. Sok has good friends who asked him to please take Chenda to the sanctuary. Chenda is very happy at the sanctuary and in the future she wants have a good job working in a hotel .  

Daro is 10 years old. He comes from the Kampong Thom province which is on the way to Phom Penh city and is about 200 km from Siem Reap city . Daro is the victim of a landmine and had to have his leg amputated. He stepped on the land mine when he was working in the jungle watching buffalo and cows with his friends.Daro's father left him at the hospital in Siem Reap because his parents are very poor and did not know how they would find the money to care for Daro or give him a good future.
Sok had a friend working at the hospital and the friend asked him if he could take Daro into the sanctuary.Daro is a good boy and he is very good at his studies. He is very happy living at the sanctuary. He is not yet thinking about the future but he wants to be able to get a good job when he grows up.

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Kakthai is 10 years old. She was born at the Phnom Krom village , Siem Reap district which is 19 km from Siem Reap city on the way to the Tonlesap lake. Kakthai has only her mother. For a long time Kakthia was living with her mother but she was working a lot to help take care of her brother and sister by selling the cakes at the market. She could not go to school because she was busy trying to survive and look after the family.  A relative brough Kakthai to the sanctuary and she is now able to go to school. In the future she want to be a tour guide like Sok.

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Som is 6 years old. She was born at the Keak Tum village, Rel commune, Pouk district, Siem Reap. Som cannot remember what happened to her parents because they left when she was a baby. She was living with her grandmother and her grandmother doesn't even know where her parents went and has not heard from them for a long time. Som has been working since she was very little. She cooked rice for her grandmother everyday, and she collected wood for the fire everyday because her granparents are too old to get the firewood themselves. She also did all the laundry by herself without any help . She got good training from her good grandmother. Som is a very good girl and we are all love her. In the future she wants to be a teacher and help her village. 

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Sokphol is 9 year old. He was born at Angkor Wat temple complex about 19 km from Siem Reap city . Sokphol parents are very poor and have no money. They spend their days drinking rice wine and when they drink they hit Sokphol. Sokphol had to run away from his parents and went to some relatives to see if they could look after him but they said no. Because his village is not far from the temples he went there to find food to eat from the tourists visiting the temples . Sok found him at the temple and his parents agreed that he could go and live at the sanctuary. He is now very happy at the sanctuary.In the future he want to be a tour guide like Sok .  

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Sros is 8 years old . He was born at the Wat Takam village, Don Keov commune, Pouk district, Siem reap which is about 69 km from the Siem Reap city . He comes from the same village as Aurn and it is a very sad place. It is off the tourist route and it is a very poor place with many small houses, has bad water and is so far away from the market. There is no power or electricity. Everyone in this village is a poor rice farmer. Sros comes from a big family with seven children and he is the youngest. But his parents struggle everyday to get food for all the children or medicine when they get sick. Sros came to live in the sanctuary because one of the staff knew of his desperate plight. In the future he wants to be a tour guide .  

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Two is 6 years old . He was born from the Donhong village, Gakhas commune, Roslos district, Siem Reap Cambodia, about 50 km from Siem Reap city . Two has only a father now. His father drinks too much rice wine and is not expected to live much longer. He hit Two's mother every day after drinking the rice wine and after sustaining blows for many years, she died, leaving two small boys.
Two was lucky because a relative helped him to get into the sanctuary. Two wants to be a tour guide when he grows up.

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Vanna is 12 year old. He was born at Samsrong village, Kav  commune , Jkeng , Siem Reap. Vanna had to walk 13 km to and from school from his village because his family are too poor to have any transportation. His father died and his mother is older and works very hard to care for everyone. Vanna was born with a bad leg and Sok met him when his mother brought him to the hospital in Siem Reap to have his leg checked. His mother asked the doctors if there was an NGO who could take Vanna and give him a better life. The doctors knew about the sanctuary and his mother agreed that he would go and live there.Because his leg is not strong in the future he wants to teach computing.

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Pham Phon is the newest child at the sanctuary. He is 7 years old. He was born at Trapeng Sek Village Kokgheak Commune, Siem Reap province, 16km from Siem Reap town. Phon is physically and mentally disabled. He can't talk properly and he has a bad leg and is physically weak. His parents abandoned him with his aged and sick grandmother and she had lots of trouble caring for him. He was also picked on by other children in the village. His grandmother took him to the hospital in Siem Reap to see if an NGO could take him in and give him a better life. Sok has recently taken him into the children's sanctuary where he will be well taken care of. Sok does not know what his future holds as it is very hard being disabled in Cambodia.

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