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NHCC - NEW HOPE FOR CAMBODIAN CHILDREN. You just fall in LOVE with the kids after 2 sec. As soon as you arrive the kids just come running up to you, jump and crawl on you, while asking you where you from? what's you name? and yeah you get lots and lots of hugs. It's just the BEST experience I ever had in my life. Just the smile and the love the kids gives you, you can't help yourself to fall in love with them - sooner or later you forget all about that these kids actually are sick and have HIV.
The first day I arrived John, the founder of NCHH, gave me a tour of the village and explain how it is like for these kids to live with HIV. The village is divide into 8 clusters (areas), each cluster has it own nurses, take-cares and a cooking area, in the total the village is feeding 240 children, boys and girls live in separate clusters, one cluster is only for volunteers, it got beds, showers and a tv-dvd-laptop-kitchen-preparing for lessons-room, basically you do everything there!, but electricity is limited, so its only at 5.00 in the morning, you got maybe 3 hours, and again at 17.00. The village tries to be self-sustainable, it got its own solar-system, 3 generators in order to get electricity, farming house with pigs and chickens, areas for growing veggies and fruits, all food is prepare on gas-stove, the gas is created by a mixture of pig and chicken poor, really something!!
For the volunteers the normal daily routine goes like this:
*Get up at 5.00 in the morning
*Breakfast at 5.30, you get rise, chicken, veggies and fruit, - AND that's is the same for lunch and dinner! So bring along some ketchup or bread if you plan on staying for a long time!
*Option to go the local market with the cooking ladies
Or
*Go to nursery, which is for the children that are not in school yet, you watch a bit of TV aka cartoon, play games and hang out until 10.00.
Or
*You can go for nap, because its HOT like hell, since the electricity is limited for certain hours you will enjoy a nap with air-condition on!
*From 10.00-13.00 you would normal prepare for the English lessons you are giving later on, also at 11.00 it is lunch time!
*From 13.00-16.30 you give English lessons for the kids, the kids have already been to public school, so this is consider like exstra lessons in order to get better at English, they are divided into levels rated how good they are at English, written and oral, so in a 2. grade might kids from 7-8 years but also maybe a kid who is 15 years old, a bit odd, but good!
*At 17.00 it is dinner time
*After dinner most kids goes to the play ground which is in the middle of the village, they play basketball, football, volleyball, and they like it a lot when the volunteers show up with their cameras and take lots and lots of pictures, they will pose for you, and will want to see ALL you pictures on the digital camera, its fun!
*Around 18.00 the kids go home (to the clusters) it's time for them to get their daily medicine, which they also get in the morning.
*From 18.00 you have time off, you will watch a movie, use the laptop or read a book.
*At 20.30 its goodnight! the electricity goes off, and there is only one thing to do, when its TOTAL dark, sleep: zzzzzzzzzZZZZzzzz!
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Ida Wow, its always amazes me how these kids can be so happy when they have so little and on top of that are sick... Volunteering is the best! Its such a rewarding experience and it will change they way you look at a lot of things.. I would love to go volunteer at NHCC!! Sounds like a really good place:-)