Ever wondered what it is like to be an abandoned child, to see your family split up because a parent is always drunk, to have to pick garbage to help feed the rest of the family? And when “fortunes” change as a child is admitted to a children’s home, what is it like to have to adjust to living with so many others, to keeping some kind of a routine, to having go to classes? What else bothers such a child? What touches him or her? These and many other insights can be gained from “In The Shoes of a Cambodian Child”, a book consisting of stories by the children at the Goducate Children’s Home in Cambodia.
The idea of this book is to increase awareness of what goes on in the minds of children from dysfunctional families. It is so easy to push thoughts about the poor and needy to the back of one’s mind. We hope that the stories in this book will enable readers to empathize with the children from dysfunctional families and think about helping this and many other disadvantaged groups.
