CCH Founders ...
Ms. Osanai MIEKO, JHP President, is a founder of CCH, along with Mr. Mech Sokha, the current CCH Director. Ms. Mieko is also God Mother of Mech Sokha, and is a grandmother of Hope and Compassion to all CCH children. She has supported Sokha in the past to receive English training and to sponsor him to study about Rural Social Leadership in the Philippines and to receive a degree in construction engineering in Phnom Penh.
Sokha is himself an orphan. He was the sole survivor in his family of the Khmer Rouge genocide of 1975 to 1979. The years of Khmer Rouge rule also prevented him from getting an education. After the overthrow of the Khmer Rouge regime, he worked various jobs and studied at night in order to educate himself. By the early ‘90s, he was working as a driver with a small Japanese non-governmental organization based in Phnom Penh. The organization received a visit from a Japanese woman, Ms.Osanai Mieko, who befriended Sokha, who drove her around during her stay. He told her of his plans and aspirations, and she eventually agreed to sponsor his education in the Philippines. He studied child development and management of non-governmental organizations, and then returned to Cambodia. In the meantime, his benefactor organized financial support in Japan for Sokha’s dream of starting an orphanage for children living and working as garbage pickers on the Steung Meanchey landfill. Finally, in October 2002, he was able to open Center for Children's Happiness. Read more about Sokha's Story
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