The Cambodian prison system is plagued by overcrowding, squalid conditions and widespread corruption. Detainees’ rights are often neglected, and Cambodian prisons do not provide detainees with essentials, such as nutritious and healthy meals, clean drinking water, quality medical care, and sanitary living conditions. Children under the age of 3 are allowed to live in prisons with their parents, where they are exposed to unhealthy prison conditions and lack essential nutrients at a crucial point in their physical and mental development. As of December 2020, there were 98 children and 44 pregnant women living in the eighteen prisons that our partner monitors.
This project with partner LICADHO, the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights provides hygiene materials and food, including rice, dried fish, and soy milk, to these women and their children. LICADHO’s medical team also provides regular consultations and treatments for detainees in eleven prisons; each detainee that meets with the medical team also receives nutrition supplementation. The project will benefit 100 infants and their mothers as well as 50 pregnant women. Annually renewable project.
The Cambodian prison system is plagued by overcrowding, squalid conditions and widespread corruption. Detainees’ rights are often neglected, and Cambodian prisons do not provide detainees with essentials, such as nutritious and healthy meals, clean drinking water, quality medical care, and sanitary living conditions. Children under the age of 3 are allowed to live in prisons with their parents, where they are exposed to unhealthy prison conditions and lack essential nutrients at a crucial point in their physical and mental development. As of December 2020, there were 98 children and 44 pregnant women living in the eighteen prisons that our partner monitors.
This project with partner LICADHO, the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights provides hygiene materials and food, including rice, dried fish, and soy milk, to these women and their children. LICADHO’s medical team also provides regular consultations and treatments for detainees in eleven prisons; each detainee that meets with the medical team also receives nutrition supplementation. The project will benefit 100 infants and their mothers as well as 50 pregnant women. Annually renewable project.
