Cambodia 2011

Reflections by the 2010 Team on their time in Cambodia

Our link with Cambodia.
In January and February 2009 and in 2010 a team of 14 and 19 respectively travelled to Cambodia to work with local and international humanitarian agencies. The team worked with Samaritan’s Purse, International Teams and Gospel Commission Fellowship Church

Team member raised their own airfare and travel costs.

In January/February 2010 the team continued the connections established in 2009. Members of the team worked with the same organisations on the following projects:

* Provision of bio sand water filters for Cambodian rural villages

• * Establishment of a computer lab for the Shalom School that cares for Vietnamese children during the day.

• * The implementation of Child Safe Zones inside the ‘internally displaced persons’ camps to protect the children from human traffickers, sexual predators and foreign objects such as drug needles and glass.

• * Support for family and youth camps which aim to teach family values

Some of these projects have been supported as part of Gymea Baptist Church’s May Mission Month projects.

The team is made up of representatives from each ministry area of our church including young people, young adults, men's and women's ministries. The team will get involved with local projects on the ground and take what they have learned back to the church and their specific ministry area.

Meet the 2010 team - click here to read about each team member