Author: Taramana Communication

Vaccinations & medical check-ups: a review of the latest health campaign

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This past February, the Center’s children benefited from a comprehensive individual check-up  during a two-week health campaign.

143 small patients were treated to a general consultation :

– auscultation and checking of blood pressure
– measurement of both height and weight
– verification of visual acuity
– dental examination

At the same time, 132 were also vaccinated against hepatitis B and poliomyelitis.

IN ADDITION…

Thanks to this annual check-up, we can assess the health status of the Center’s children.This allows us to better treat them and to give them the green light to practice sports such as soccer and rugby.

In 2019 :

  • 22 children with food deficiencies who previously did not go to the canteen, now eat their meals every afternoon at Taramana
  • Complementary examinations were performed on 5 children: blood tests, echo-cardiography and lung x-rays
  • 3 children were able to have an appointment with an ophthalmologist

This latest health campaign was made possible thanks to a cohesive team.

Big THANKS  to Frédéric, Emmanuelle and Elise Mousset as well as to Meng and Vuthny for having lent a helping hand to Jocelyn Dordé – Taramana’s official doctor – and Visal, the nurse at the Center.

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Help Taramana’s students!

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Recently, Philippe and Cécile made a donation to Taramana: a laptop. It was a well-functioning computer but they had no use for it anymore. They decided to give a second life and a second chance to it, our thanks go out to them!

Donations: an asset for Taramana

After studying the students’ needs, our Social worker decided to offer this laptop to Sophia NHOEM, a student at Western University.

Indeed, as part of her studies in both English and Communication, she needs a laptop in order to take notes, do her assignments as well as carry out research on the Web. She is currently in her 3rd year of study and will graduate next year!

She wants to become a business women!

Donating a laptop enables a student to improve his or her overall study conditions.  It also improves his or her chances to succeed! Other students also need laptops, so if you are the owner of an unused and well-functioning computer, contact us: contact@taramana.org

Taramana is permanently looking for donations: school equipment, toys, clothes, money donation, labour…. We need you! Individuals, small or big companies!

Örkun! Thanks !

Personal development training for our students

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We announced it in our last newsletter, the WIG – Women’s International Group in Phnom Penh – granted Taramana a $2,000 grant to finance the Karol & Setha training program.

The aim of this project is to offer our students workshops to teach them how to:
> Know themselves better
> Express their emotions and needs
> Open up to other people
This training will aim to develop our teenager’s self-confidence and teach them to communicate more effectively so that they can become fully accomplished and responsible adults.

A big THANK YOU to the WIG who support the Cambodian community by providing financial support to meaningful projects!
To learn more about the WIG – Women’s International Group in Phnom Penh, ▶️ it’s over here

We are very happy and excited for this collaboration and can’t wait for the first workshops to start!

KAROL & SETHA – foster positive interpersonal relations

Karol & Setha is a Cambodian NGO created in 2004.
The organization aims to foster the development of personal, family and social relations by providing participants with tools to address the root causes of relationship problems.
The trainers, all Khmer, offer very high quality support on issues concerning emotional and sexual relations, a subject that is often taboo in Khmer families.

To learn more about Karol & Setha Karol, ▶️ it’s over there

Water Park commited to Taramana

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A STAUNCH SUPPORT FOR TARAMANA!

Since 2012, the “Aqualand Bassin d’Arcachon” water park has been supporting Taramana.
Each year, in parallel with a sponsorship, the park generously offers 250 entrance tickets to the association. The tickets are then resold for the benefit of Taramana.

This summer, the tickets resale raised more than 7,000 euros!

We would like to warmly thank
– Aqualand and its director Sylvain Petitjean for their precious support.
– the Agora association, which has effectively assisted our volunteers in France with the sale of entrance tickets.

 

Focus on “Aqualand Bassin d’Arcachon”

There are 8 Aqualand water parks in France.
The one in the Bassin d’Arcachon welcomes over 150,000 visitors each summer and offers 13 spaces and slides for both young and old.

Next summer, if you are visiting this beautiful French region, plan to spend a day with family or friends to enjoy good slidings in Aqualand!

All the information about Aqualand Bassin d’Arcachon (in French): aqualand.fr/bassin-d-arcachon

Taramana gets a new look!

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The Association, declared as a public utility, now has a new presentation brochure which explains Taramana’s history, the Association’s goals and how people can help us.

A new presentation brochure for Taramana!

Updated, dynamic and more pleasant to read! For the first time, there will be an English version!

Indeed, just as for the website, the English version exists, Taramana can now reach an wider international audience!

To see this wonderful brochure, download it, print it and send it to your relatives …: https://www.taramana.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/2018-TARAMANA-PLAQUETTE-UK.pdf

Ah ah… How long before a Khmer version becomes available?

A new partnership: ISF Imprimerie

We have been able to print, for free, 8 000 presentation brochures thanks to our partner, ISF Imprimerie. A big thank you to them!! It is thanks to the work of companes like ISF Imprimerie that Taramana can grow and provide better care to the children!

We would like to remind you that, if you want to become a Taramana partner, you can benefit from a French tax reduction: 75% up to the amound of 529€ and then 66% on any expense made for the NGO. A donation in terms of workforce worth 1000€, in reality, will cost only 440€ !!

To obtain further information about it, just click here!

FIRST AID GRADUTION CEREMONY

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A few months ago, a new first aid training was proposer, monitored by Dr Jocelyn Dordé and implemented by the nurse, Doeu Visal as well as by two qualified volunteers.

Overall, 35 children took four courses to learn or review life-saving gestures (recovery position, heart massage, what to do in case of choking or burns).

WHAT PRIDE!

It was time to give a certificat to all the participants as well as a little award for their attendance, reliability and success!

What pride for everyone, to pick up their certification, hearing their comrades’ applause, and given out y our new Director, Patrick Telhomme.

Thanks to AEFC’s donations, we were able to offer participants a prize, including treats and beverages.

Good job kids!

 

 

A MURAL AND CINEMA

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As you might already know, the Taramana Center’s activity room underwent a makeover during the summer! It is now perfectly arranged and beautifully decorated with a mural to welcome children for various activities led by our volunteers.

Our volunteer Leakhena carried out a workshop to decorate this room! Inspired by the childrens’ drawings, Leakhena designed this colourful mural. Now the room has been transformed into a proper and playful room where children can express their creativity!

PRETTY, BUT NOT ONLY…

This room has welcomed, for a few weeks already, some suberb craft activities, but also a puppet theater and it also is used as a resting, reading and discussion place for all the kids.

Today, thanks to the donation of a film library with over 800 movies by the Curtat family and after an inventory of these, the children or the students (depending on the movie chosen) can enjoy a movie night per month, followed by a small talk about the film.

It is the opportunity to introduce a real and proper approach to cinema as an art and to discover and improve their understanding of both English and French. In addition, it helps to develop their critical thinking and to encourage them to say something during the discussions.

A big thanks to Leakhena for this beautiful mural, to the Curtat family for these marvelous multimedia tools and also to our volunteers who supervise the kids during these activities!

Would you to like to donate to Taramana?

School equipment? Paint supplies? Paper? Colored Pencils? …

Contact@taramana.org

Would you like to volunteer?

https://www.taramana.org/en/support-us/join-us/

 

Medical Prevention

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Once a month, our nurse Visal teaches children about medical prevention of diseases.
This month, he reiterated the general importance of having a good hygiene. The children listened with great interest to his precious advice: brushing your teeth 3 times a day, taking a shower, washing your hands regularly and even cleaning your nails!
 

Health is one of Taramana’s four pillars.

A health program was launched by Dr. Dordé, president of the association, and developed by Visal, the nurse. At the center, in addition to these monthly medical preventions, each child is encouraged to wash his hands before eating at the cafeteria and brush his teeth after lunch. In addition, our partnership with the NGO Cambodia World Family allows children to benefit from quality dental care twice a year. Finally, a vaccination protocol is in place since 2010 for all children.

A girls’ victory in rugby!

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Once again this month, Taramana’s athletes brought us a great victory! This time, it is the women’s rugby team.

What a team!

On Sunday the 8th of July 2018, 3 players from the women’s rugby Taramana’s team: Sreyka, Sreypich and Young Sa attended the NGO PSE (Pour un Sourire d’enfants)‘s tournament and finished first for the under 15 years old group.

The players, from the NGO “Toutes à l’école”, welcomed Taramana’s girls into their team. It created a good atmosphere and led them to victory!

The children train every Thursday during 1 hour with coaches from Kampuchea Balopp whom with we are working for 5 years.

We are very proud to see the children, girls as well as boys, improve in rugby, a sport not well known in Cambodia. Team spirit, commitment and respect constitute the values of this sport and bring tools to the children that will be useful for their own life-development either in their private or professional life.

Once more, congratulation to the women’s rugby team and to our associate Kampuchea Balopp for their energy and willingness to make the children improve.

A GARAGE SALE FOR THE BENEFIT OF TARAMANA

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Phnom Penh Accueil Association has organized, in collaboration with the French High School René Descartes, a garage sale!

Taramana volunteer Team didm’t hésitante to gather together on an early Saturday morning to collect funds for the children!

A COLOURFUL MORNING

There was really something for everyone’s taste: small prices, colors, fabric patterns and of course, good spirit and cheer!

A nice occasion to empty out our closets of fabrics and books’ donation people has made to collect some money in order to buy sacks of rice, which we deliver monthly to families the most in need.

But it was also a gréât time to share and meet with the people of Phnom Penh and to introduce them to the Taramana Aassociation!

You also want to help, by setting up a garage sale for example, for the benefit of Taramana? Just contact us! (contact@taramana.org)

To become a volunteer in France or in Cambodia: https://www.taramana.org/en/support-us/join-us/

The President of Taramana received the Trophy of the French Abroad for the Social and Humanitarian category

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Dr. Jocelyn Dordé, president and founder of the Taramana association, was elected Laureate of the Trophy of the French Abroad for the Social and Humanitarian category 2018, organized by the Petitjournal.com and the CFE. Mr. Alain Pierre Mignon, President of the CFE awarded him his prize and that of the 6 winners of the other categories at the Quai d’Orsay in Paris on March 13th.

This price rewards the work of many associations in Cambodia who work tirelessly to improve the education and future of thousands of Cambodian children. It is a great opportunity to raise awareness about their work.

For Taramana, this trophy is the recognition of all the work accomplished by the French and Cambodian teams of the association since 2005. Jocelyn Dordé has been working in Cambodia for almost twenty years now.

It has been a long way from the first hut on the railway in 2006 to the new Taramana Magdalena Center, which opened in 2016. Today the center welcomes nearly 200 students every day, aged from 8 to 17 years old. The children follow additional Khmer, French, sports and computer classes. The center also socially and financially supports the slum’s families (distribution of rice, health insurance, payment of university fees for a dozen students)!

A new play in perspective

Since 2010, Jocelyn Dordé facilitates a French theater workshop at the Center. After a successful tour in France in 2016, “Les Petits Chenapans” troup has planned to return in 2019 with a new comedy that will be written and staged again by the theater-loving doctor. This will be an opportunity for new students enrolled in French classes at the Center to improve their pronunciation and boost their confidence. All this is of course punctuated of laughter and good moments!

Want to learn more about this?

  • Listen to the interview on France Inter:

The call of the dawn, interview of Hélène Roussel on France Inter

  • Listen to the interview on RFI :

 

Jocelyn Dordé won the Trophy of the French Abroad for the Social and Humanitarian category 2018 awarded by the CFE. This doctor created at the heart of a slum of Phnom Penh, Taramana, an association that welcomes around 250 children and gives them the opportunity to have access to a job, a reassuring and fun environment to grow up in. The Trophy of the French Abroad is organized by by http://www.lepetitjournal.com report made by France 24.

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Kampuchea Balopp and Taramana in Singapore

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12 young people, including three children from Taramana, flew to Singapore for the international rugby tournament, “Tanglin Rugby Club Junior Cup”, to represent Cambodia, and more specifically Taramana and the NGO Kampuchea Balopp!

Emotions and pride!

 

It was for them a weekend full of “first times”: plane, foreign country, hotel, distance from the family …

It was with great emotion that we dropped them off at the airport with their families! More than 1000 children participated in this incredible tournament, and our team was one of the most mixed, with 4 girls for 8 boys. After 4 hard-fought matches, 3 wins and 1 draw (5 tries everywhere!), our young Cambodians lost in the grand final against the Centaurs Arches but that did not stop them from leaving the field with their heads held high!

 How proud to see them as happy and fairplay!

In addition to participating in this great tournament, the kids had the chance to visit the city of Singapore, enjoy good pizza at the restaurant and meet students from UWC South East Asia School.

A BIG thank you to Kampuchea Balopp and its partners like SilkAir for facilitating this trip that will be remembered by our students for a long time …

 

Sophanna, 10 years old: “I really liked the Singapore rugby fields, but also the big lion and fish statue, it was very pretty!”