Who are you?
I am Ngoun Beng, the primary representative of the orphanage.

Who is your leadership team?
Myself, Ngoun Ngoeun, and Mrs. Min Chroeum.

Who are your students?
The orphaned children are my students.

Who are you looking for?
I am looking for volunteers to help with teaching or direct charitable contributions.

Who has helped you before?
In the past, an NGO had helped us.

Who is helping you now?
No one is helping us now.

Who do you want to help you in the future?
We would like to build a volunteer team.

What do you do every day?
We raise, feed, and teach orphaned children.

What is your background?
I have been a pastor of an independent Christian Church.

What is the background of other leaders?
A university student, and a cook.

What are their qualifications?
He has a bachelor degree from Japan.

What does everyone do everyday?
Ngoun Beng helps with the bible training. Ngoun Ngoeun helps with English and discipline. Mrs. Min Chroeum and Tem Tonh are our cooks.

What do the students do?
The students study at the government school and have classes afterwards at our orphanage.

What do you need?
I need support to raise the children.

What do you want from your students?
I want see them live a full life, with a good education, and to have them help develop their society.

What do you want for your students?
I want to train them how to know Christ, and have a good education, and to become good men and women in the future.

What do you want for yourself?
I did not want to have anything.

What do you want from your visitors?
I would like visitors to help and support the orphan children and train them with skills.

What are your goals?
I want to teach the young boys how to build agricultural machinery, such as a rice harvester and the rice planter. We train the girls in sewing, and we teach all about body perception, cleanliness, and hygiene.

What is your vision?
I believe that if we can accomplsih our goals, within the next 3 years, these children can support themselves and help the organization in return.

What is your mission?
We intend to build a rice harvesting machine for the older boys to work with. If this works well, we will build more of these machines for ourselves, and to sell, because many farmers have interest in buying one.

We will be sending some of the oldest girls to study how to sew, and how to learn other basic life skills. When they gain more education, they will teach the younger girls.

What problems do you have?
We need outside support but do not have any.

What is it like to be Christian in Cambodia?
I think the Christian in Cambodia now has a good relationship with the government. We have peace and freedom, and we can do evangelism everywhere in Cambodia.

What is it like to live at your orphanage?
I think it is good to live at the orphanage, especially for the homeless children.

What is it like for a foreigner to live at the orphanage?
I think there is good security here, but I do not know about how comfortable the foreigner will be.

What is it like for a foreigner to live in the village?
I think the village is good too, but Cambodia is a hot, undeveloped country. The foreiner would need to fully understand the situation maybe by living here on trial.

Why are you a Christian?
Because I am a sinner, I can not save myself, and I have accepted Christ to save me. God has promised to give me eternal life.

Why do you want the children to be Christian?
God will save them from their sins, change their lives, and give them Eternal lifes too.

Why do you do what you do with the orphanage?
I have compassion for these children, and I love them, because they are homeless, hopeless, nd helpless. God has placed on my heart to love the poor children.

Why do you need help from others?
I can not help and support myself now. The job is too big for the little resources I have. I need help from others at least to get set on a firm foundation, and then we should provide for ourselves.

Why do the children need help?
These children do not have parents or family to support them. They cannot live or study on their own.

Why should anyone help you?
I do not have the fund to run this worthy project.

Why should anyone care about you?
I have a good heart for what I am doing, and I cannot do this on my own. The work needs to be done and so I have committed myself. I hope that others will join with me and commit to helping these children too.

Why should anyone visit you?
I would like to show them the possibilities of what we can do if only we had the proper support.

Why should anyone send you money?
We need money to survive. Without money, life is a great struggle. We want to move forward, but barely have enough to survive. We hope others will see our good work and want to help too.

Why are the children orphans?
There are many reasons, but basically (1) their parents died by diseases, (2) their families are broken, (3) prostitution left them with with no one.

When did you begin doing this?
I began five years ago.

When do you need help?
I need help from now.

When do you teach?
I rotate classes for groups of children. Some children do not have government class in the morning, so I teach them in the morning, and vice-versa.

When do you eat?
I have breakfast in the morning, lunch at noon, dinner at the evening.

When do you have prayers?
I pray in the morning and after dinner time.

When do you do anything?
I used to do anything after doing everything.

When do you do everything?
I used to do everything from 8 AM 11 AM and afternoon From 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM.

Where are you located?
We are located in Tatok 2 village Mong Commune, Mong Russei District Battambang Province Cambodia.

Where do the children play?
The children play in front of the orphanage.

Where do you teach?
I teach them under the house.

Where do you pray?
We pray under the house too.

Where do you eat?
We eat under the house, and sometimes in the kitchen.

Where do you sleep?
We sleep on the floor in the house.

Where are the children's families?
They are scattered and most are far away from here.

Where do you need help the most?
I need the most help at the orphanage.

How do you survive?
I survive by self-support.

How do you get new students?
I receive calls from the village leader, or from relatives of the ophans who cannot help them.

How old are your students?
My students are from 6 to 16 years old now.

How many students do you have?
We had 53, but needed to send some away because we had no money to feed the. Now we have only 35 students.

How many years have you been doing this?
I have been doing this for 5 years.

How long have you been a Christian?
I have been a Christian for 29 years.

How long can a foreigner stay with you?
We have 2 options. First, the foreigner can stay for a short term of three months, and second, they can stay with us for a year to three years.

How long do you want a foreigner to stay with you?
For three years.

How can a foreigner help you?
The foreigner can help with monthly support. and to teach the children skills and the biblical education.

How do you find money now?
I can not find any money for now.

How much does it cost you to live?
It costs me $300 USD per month to live.

How much will it cost a visitor to live?
It would most likely costs the foreigner $600 USD per month for added comfort.

How much does it cost to help one student?
One orphan costs about $ 35 USD per month, or about one US dollar a day. I pray that God would touch just enough Christian souls to adopt one child each at one dollar a day.

We are about 500 meters to the west of Mong Russei market.

Sincerely,
Ngoun Beng
bengngoun (at) gmail.com
Orphanage Representative
Tatok 2 Village
Mong Commune
Mong Russei District
Battambang Province
Cambodia