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Cambodia

Healthcare Center for Children

Address

No. 115A, St. 141
Veal Vong
7 Makara, Phnom Penh
Cambodia

Contact Information

If calling from Cambodia:

Tel: 023 212 133
Fax: 023 212 133

If calling from overseas:

Tel: +855 23 212 133
Fax: +855 23 212 133

Activities

Healthcare Center for Children (HCC) deters women and children from seeking assistance from traffickers by supplying healthcare, educational support, social and economic development, technical support, training, and advocacy for children and young women in Cambodia. The HCC achieves these goals through a three-tiered approach of awareness raising, community organizing, and direct assistance.

HCC implements awareness-raising and income generating activities in rural areas. HCC also organizes workshops to raise awareness among key persons in the community in areas with high incidence of human trafficking (mainly in Prey Veng Province) and then creates a community-based prevention network.

Since 2005, with the support of the International Center for the Rights of the Child, HCC has also been working on formation of school- based trafficking prevention networks adding to community-based networks. In 14 primary and secondary schools in Prey Veng Province, Komchay Mea District, a 10-member group disseminates information from friend to friend on the dangers of trafficking and the rights of children. It also established a savings group, which provides cattle and pigs as loans to girls from high-risk families, such as one-parent families or those who are extremely poor.

The Asia Foundation supports the HCC to replicate sustainable and effective community watch networks in three provinces, including one to protect child victims at the point of exploitation in a border province with a high rate of trafficking.

HCC is an executive committee member of End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes (ECPAT) in Cambodia, Steering Committee member of COSECAM, a member of the Children's Rights Committee (CRC), Cambodian National Council for Children (CNCC) and NGO Forum on Cambodia.