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Two young French women, Alix and Alix, having finished their studies and before entering their professional life, wanted to give of their time to Anakut Laor, send these first results.

Dear All,

It has been five weeks since we arrived in Cambodia and worked as volunteers for Anakut Laor. We were welcomed in Phnom Penh by Dr. Dina Billaud who guided us during a week and then set us on way to our work.

Our mission consists, among others, in estimating the envy and the possibilities of future for the girls who will soon be old enough to take leave, while knowing that their disease closes some doors for them. Some have a rather clear idea of what they would like to do. The others still have girl's dreams, as to become a singer or a DJ!

We were there also to observe what happens and to refer to the French office of Anakut Laor what we observed.

The fact of living within the house allows us to embrace the everyday life of the girls and to observe the habits of each. We work in close collaboration with Sarethea, the educator and we discuss together every question concerning the home. A fourth mom is recruited to stabilize the balance of the house which was worsened when a girl is hospitalized. A mom has to stay with her, as it is practiced in Cambodia to feed her and take care of her.

From day to day, other tasks and problems come to be added to our initial mission along with helping with the organization of the house.

Considering the inherent risks in Cambodia, it seemed essential to make the girls aware of the problems of the human traffic that exists. An association with professionals that specializes in this question came to speak to the girls to warn them about these dangers.

We also schedule for them to meet very soon an organization dedicated to the questions of AIDS and maternity: Solutions do exist which allow the sick women not to pass on the HIV virus to their children.

The girls are full of life and are always delighted to receive visits from Chris, the American pharmacist who has followed them since the beginning Anakut Laor. He has returned several times from the US and with every visit there were moments of enjoyment, in particular with the present of rollerblades for each and an outing to the water park!

Alix and Alix

Sida Info

A world political commitment is necessary:

Attentiveness as for the everyday acceptance

Long-lasting funds for stable projects: research, prevention

Fight against the discrimination and the discriminatives laws

In the prevention, in the screening,
In the care and in the reproduction)

Intensification of the place(square) of the civil society in the fight against the epidemic