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UN Resident Coordinator Douglas Broderick presents certificate to a winner of handicraft design competition on Oct. 5, 2011.
Phnom Penh 11 October 2011
Three Cambodian handicraft makers, all from the northeastern Ratanakiri province, have received awards for best design of indigenous handicraft products. The winners were announced during a ceremony on Wednesday, October 5, which marked the closure of the Indigenous Designers of the Year Competition.
The competition showcased indigenous products in three different categories – textile weaving, pottery, and basketry – from 11 groups of producer.
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Sok Chea with his brother, uncle and grandmother, Chou Savang, at their home in Kampong Speu province.UNICEF Cambodia/Eamonn Casey
KAMPONG SPEU, June 2011
From frail, lethargic and desperately malnourished at nine months old to chubby, smiling and bright-eyed now at 16 months, Sok Chea is a local success story for Toul Sala Health Centre, the local community, and the multi-agency programme tackling malnutrition in Cambodia’s Kompong Speu province. As he lives, breathes and walks, Chea is evidence of a safety net that works.
“Before he was so skinny, but now you see he’s fat. If you have food to give him, he is happy to eat it: rice soup, egg, porridge, bread or whatever I can afford to give him,” says his grandmother and carer, Chou Savang, in Thnout village, Toul Sala commune.
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Yeang Khan holds her baby boy, Avin. Khan. Yeang registered Avin’s birth within a week after he was born. UNICEF Cambodia/Putsata Reang
PREY VENG, 9 February 2011
Yeang Khan, 33, never fully understood the importance of a birth certificate until a year ago, when she was pregnant with her third child. That’s when a stream of information about the significance of civil registration filtered through Khan’s village, Tonsay Chol Heb, a small cluster of stilted wooden homes that hug the main road just east of Prey Veng provincial town.
The information flow started with her village chief, who one day visited Khan and her neighbours to explain that their children would need birth certificates in order to attend school, to receive immunizations and, later in life, to get married, get an identification card or get a passport.
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Mr. Taing Chhin Sothy explaining the importance of having health check of women’s pregnancy by a midwife to audiences attending the award ceremony of winning photos on maternal and child health on 10 Aug 2011, a joint-advocacy effort between CCIM-UNFPA. His photo won the first place.
Phnom Penh, 31 August 2011
“…. I decided to share the photo I took few years back during my field trip to a community in Kampong Cham province, about 120 kilometres northeast of Phnom Penh, where I met a midwife conducting health check-ups for pregnant women,” said Taing Chhin Sothy, the winner of the 2011 CCIM-UNFPA Photo Competition on maternal and child health.
The world population will reach 7 billion by 31 October 2011, according to the United Nations Population Division. This global milestone presents a challenge, an opportunity, and a call to action. The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) is conducting a campaign to raise awareness of this momentous occasion and the opportunities and challenges facing a world of 7 billion people.
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The following Op-Ed was published in the Phnom Penh Post and Rasmei Kampuchea on International Youth Day, Friday 12 August 2011.
Today marks International Youth Day. It is an opportune moment to both look at Cambodia’s successes in seeking to address the issues still facing its young people, as well as exploring the ways they can be empowered to reach their full economic and social potential.
Cambodia’s greatest asset is its young men and women. They are confident, dynamic and motivated. And the United Nations knows that investment in Cambodia’s youth is an investment in the future of the Kingdom.
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