Girl #33 - Sokhim
Sponsor: The Overlake School, Seattle
Profile: Nhim Sokhim is 13 years old and a fourth grade student at the 2006-2007 semesters of the Overlake primary school in Tuol Sro-lao village, Pailin.
Current situation: Her family’s homeland is in Battambang province. They came to live many years ago, living on someone’s land and keeping their trees up. Her father does nothing (his seems does not care about family). Her mother is feeling trembling and has problem with intestine/stomachache. Besides of core work, they have feeding chicken for extra income. She has two brothers; she is the youngest child in the family. Her oldest brother is staying at Children Border Center for the past seven years. Now he is a nine grade student at the 2006-2007 semesters. Her second brother is forced to drop school since two grades because he did some mistake in the school. The reason she frequently school absence due to her mother ask her to take care her when she sick and fishing for food. Her parents are in debt for about $250. Nevertheless, she is a hard study girl and always gets a high grade in the class.
Problem she faces: The family is very poor. They don’t have stable work to do. They don’t have own land. Her mother is always sickness.
Suggestion: She would like to ask any support to the family. And if money is provided, it should be direct to her mother because we don’t truth her father, he will force to drink alcohol or smoking etc. I would suggest to the school vice principal to accept her second brother to attend school again.
Support: we pay her mother $10 a month ($120 a year)
Reported by : Nead
Date posted: November 15, 2006.
