Everyday at Stung Meanchey dump hundreds of families wake up and go out to make a living.  Sometimes over 1000 adults, youth, and even young children go out with long metal hooks and they pick apart the piles of trash searching for plastics, glass, and aluminum cans which can then be sold to be recycled in order to earn a meager salary, usually less than a dollar a day.

While their families and older siblings go out to pick through the garbage, the smallest children of these families play in the dump or wait for their parents to come back with something to eat.  These children suffer from malnutrition and diseases which flourish in such toxic environments.

To address the desperate situation of these children TransformAsia has opened a day care center where the children are able to come.  Here they are fed, their clothes are washed, they are taught the English and Khmer alphabets, and they play like kids do.  But most importantly they are shown the Love of Christ.  This truly has made so much difference in these young children’s lives!

Through partnerships with organizations like Crossroads International, TransformAsia has been able to develop a wonderful facility for the Joy Day Care Center and has been able to acquire vehicles to use when picking the children up every morning and taking them home in the evenings.

Please pray for this ministry and consider joining TransformAsia in taking care of and showing God’s love to these children!

And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is my disciple, I tell you the truth, he will certainly not lose his reward.
~Matthew 10:42