Under Cambodian law, children under the age of three can live in prisons with their parents. Children experience gruesome prison conditions at a crucial point in their development. Pregnant women are not provided with pre- and post-natal care and are often forced to return to prison one day after giving birth. LICADHO has received reports of mothers returning to prisons with newborns to sleep on cell floors without extra food or sanitation. Prisons allocate just 1750 riel ($0.43) daily per child for food and other basic needs. Our partner reports that prisoners’ diets, lacking in essential nutrients and with limited access to clean water, have resulted in a majority of clients experiencing asthenia, anemia and significant vitamin deficiencies.
LICADHO, the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights, BGR’s partner in this project, monitors the rights and welfare of pregnant women and children living with their mothers in nineteen Cambodian prisons and provides extra food and material support to them on a monthly basis. This BGR project provides nutritious food and material support to mothers, children, and pregnant women detained in prisons—from nutrition-rich foods like soy milk, fruit, and dried fish, to hygiene materials such as menstrual pads, natural soap, laundry detergent, and toothpaste.
LICADHO’s medical team also provides regular consultations and treatments for detainees in eleven prisons; through this project, each detainee that meets with the medical team also receives nutrition supplementation. Additionally, LICADHO will distribute menstrual products to girl and women detainees where necessary, as menstrual products are not routinely provided. The project will benefit 175 infants and their mothers, 50 pregnant women, and 2,230 other incarcerated people. Annually renewable project.
Under Cambodian law, children under the age of three can live in prisons with their parents. Children experience gruesome prison conditions at a crucial point in their development. Pregnant women are not provided with pre- and post-natal care and are often forced to return to prison one day after giving birth. LICADHO has received reports of mothers returning to prisons with newborns to sleep on cell floors without extra food or sanitation. Prisons allocate just 1750 riel ($0.43) daily per child for food and other basic needs. Our partner reports that prisoners’ diets, lacking in essential nutrients and with limited access to clean water, have resulted in a majority of clients experiencing asthenia, anemia and significant vitamin deficiencies.
LICADHO, the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights, BGR’s partner in this project, monitors the rights and welfare of pregnant women and children living with their mothers in nineteen Cambodian prisons and provides extra food and material support to them on a monthly basis. This BGR project provides nutritious food and material support to mothers, children, and pregnant women detained in prisons—from nutrition-rich foods like soy milk, fruit, and dried fish, to hygiene materials such as menstrual pads, natural soap, laundry detergent, and toothpaste.
LICADHO’s medical team also provides regular consultations and treatments for detainees in eleven prisons; through this project, each detainee that meets with the medical team also receives nutrition supplementation. Additionally, LICADHO will distribute menstrual products to girl and women detainees where necessary, as menstrual products are not routinely provided. The project will benefit 175 infants and their mothers, 50 pregnant women, and 2,230 other incarcerated people. Annually renewable project.
