CHILD SAFE HORIZONS

Children are Not Tourist Attractions... A preliminary mapping of only 5 provinces in Cambodia has revealed at least 128 residential care facilities for children and young people which were previously unknown to the Government of Cambodia. A previous study in 2015 in the same province recorded 139 residential care facilities housing 7,545 children, whereas the 2016 mapping indicates 11,788 children are now living in 278 institutions considered to be long-term (more than 6 mont

Recently, a former classmate of mine posed a question on his Facebook page: “One of the many things I'm fascinated by is group behavioural dynamics… Specifically, around events that stretch over years, are definitely wrong once exposed, but once found out, outsiders think, "why did they not do anything? How was this not known?" You see this most often in very traumatic events, like child abuse at schools spanning decades… Each time, people often knew these things were happeni