Bakou Orphan Home

The Bakou Family Home is located in the Kandal province of Cambodia, about an hour drive by car from Phnom Penh, the nations capital. The flat land of the Bakou district is covered with rice fields that support this farming community. The Home's construction was completed on January 10, 2001.

A typical day begins as the children awake. Before eating breakfast, the orphans participate in devotions. The school age children either attend classes in the morning or in the late afternoon. After lunch, most of the orphans take naps, play, study, and take classes in the home. Later, they eat dinner, take care of the homes' garden and plants, and attend an English class in the home. The Bakou family orphans finish each day gathering for church devotions, before setting up their mosquito nets and going to sleep.

Most of the orphans at the Bakou orphan home have lost parents due to simple common diseases, AIDS, and lack of medical attention. When a child first enters the Bakou Family Home, he is surrounded with a love that one is unable to describe. Because the main caregivers of the orphan home are widows themselves whom have experienced tremendous loss, they are able to minister and nurture the children in a loving way.

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