Movement News:

Cambodia Student Christian Movement

2008 March

Cambodia SCM celebrated the International Women’s Day
by creating awareness on prevention of domestic violence
against women in Dong village

On the 8th of March celebrating the commemoration of the ‘International Women’s Day’ CSCM traveled to Dong village—one of the remotest villages of south of Phnom Penh of Cambodia to raise awareness among the local villages who geographically and financially do not always have access to resources and ideas to improve the living standards of women and children. The theme for the commemoration was “Awareness on prevention of domestic violence against women”. With the financial support of the partners and senior friends from CWS (Church World Service-Cambodia) and ACR (Australia Catholic Relief) CSCM was able to make T shirts as a medium of raising awareness among the women in this small village.

On the first part of the morning three guest speakers shared their thoughts and knowledge on issues that affect women in Cambodia. They also were able to share in practical ways, how we can take better care of ourselves and give extra support to the women in our communities. In the later part of the program the women played quiz games to help all the participants to recall some significant dates, people and events that took place in Cambodia that helped women. This helped the women to gather more information on women’s issues and to develop a greater grasp of issues surround these significant dates and events. Finally a job well done by CSCM and a meaningful celebration of International Women’s day.

2003 March

Cambodia SCM is in its process of re-building and Mr. Im Thano is the current coordinator of C-SCM. C-SCM has a monthly student gathering which brings in an average of 5-10 students. This monthly gathering includes discussions on the present socio-economic and political situation of Cambodia that is affecting the Cambodian students in relation to the justice, peace and faith issues of SCM.

Forthcoming programmes

C-SCM and SCM Aotearoa will jointly organise the Movement Exchange Programme in July which aims to bring in SCMers from SCM Aotearoa to help re-build the Cambodian movement. Also, there will be a workshop on ‘Women and Education’ as well as one exposure programme for the students.