Bill’s Birthday Empowers Cambodian Women

Many women in rural Cambodian villages have no idea about their monthly cycle and how it relates to fertility, no awareness of the risk of human-trafficking to their daughters and no access to sanitary products. You can help change that by helping fund our Women's Empowerment Groups. These educational sessions enlighten women with new information – the kind that we take for granted learning as kids. As a result, they can make better choices for their families and pass on knowledge to the next generation.

These women have very limited access to the internet and health professionals. They're hearing about topics like hygiene, pregnancy, puberty, domestic violence and human trafficking for the first time, from Asian Outreach Cambodia staff.

The women make a small donation and receive a kit which contains knickers (a luxury item) and reusable sanitary pads. These products offer them greater freedom, physically and financially. Some teenage girls skip school for a week each month because they don’t have suitable sanitary products. And those women who do buy disposable products, have the environmental issue of rubbish to deal with.

AOC staff also teach on health-related topics and distribute kits to intermediate-aged kids in rural schools. This work naturally complements AOC’s other ministries in rural villages, allowing staff to interact with all generations of the community and build trusting relationships in which the love and generosity of Jesus is shared along the way.