Project update – River of Tears – Cambodian women
Thanks to your gifts this year, Project Hannah’s radio program continues to broadcast across the country, reaching into every village and touching the lives of countless women.
The radio programs focus on a wide variety of health topics with targeted information to meet the unique needs of the women of Cambodia. This includes:
Basic Medical Information:
- Prevention information for HIV/AIDS, TB, and Dengue Fever.
- First aid for cuts or burns, and treatment for fevers or diarrhoea.
Family and Maternal Health:
- Good nutrition and hygiene for women and their families.
- Prenatal and postnatal care, stressing the need for medical care throughout a pregnancy.
Practical Lessons:
- Simply teaching women to not be afraid to ask questions of their doctor. For example, medications are given like candy to patients and usually the patient has no idea what they are for, because they don’t ask.
- Even a program about getting rest each day could be important to women who toil in the sun all day.
- Social issues could receive attention, such as recognizing what constitutes spouse abuse.
As our teams receive feedback from women, we learn the most vital needs and are able to address them through the radio program.
With the support of Australian donors, we are able to ensure radios are placed in the hands of women most in need of support and information. As you can imagine, in remote regions of poverty-stricken Cambodia, families cannot afford radio for themselves, and yet it is these mums and young women most in need of information.
We are so thankful that with your help, we are able to place radios in the hands of these women… Offering compassion! Stemming tears! Bringing hope!
NEXT STEPS…
There is no postal service in Cambodia, so our innovative teams established a wonderful network of partners to help us to meet the medical needs and questions of listeners. This network is vital in disseminating information and for giving practical help to women when it’s needed urgently.
Please pray…
We are actively recruiting “Health Leaders”, women who might host a discussion group for groups of women to meet monthly to listen to the program and have discussion afterwards. The Health Leaders would be provided with materials, brochures, and names of clinics or personnel within the medical network. Please pray we’ll find competent and willing women to take up this vital role.
