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A happier childhood StarKids is helping Ya Nuch grow up with greater opportunities than her older siblings WORDS VIRGINIA MORRISON
STARKIDS DONATION TALLY
This year*
$394,392 Total
Always learning: Ya Nuch reads with her mother Sokh and niece.
PHOTO DARA CHHIM/WORLD VISION
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n Cambodia’s Battambang Province, 12-year-old Ya Nuch spends her days studying, reading and playing with friends – simple pleasures her older siblings went without. Her parents live on a rice paddy. Their yield isn’t high and neither is the market price for rice. “My two sons and daughter dropped out of school because I could not afford for them to attend high school,” says their mother Sokh. All three children stopped at grade nine. The eldest son helped his parents sell crickets, fish and shrimp to
$9,524,857 field workers several kilometres from home, where they’d have to stay overnight. “Sometimes we were really afraid of snakes; my neighbour died because of getting a snake bite,” says Sokh. They saved for a passport and travel costs so their eldest could do migrant work in Thailand. But he was mistreated and returned. With StarKids’ support, World Vision started working with the community in 2013 to help improve livelihoods, education and awareness of child rights. Ya Nuch’s family received two pigs and
a dozen chickens. They now earn US$240 every three months by selling the animals’ offspring. Sokh also attends World Vision training on parenting and school enrolment. She’s even made their yard available for a kids’ club, where around 40 children come to play, read and learn about hygiene, safety and education. “Her family is a model family in the community,” says World Vision worker Vat Kanika. Ya Nuch’s siblings are now adults. But Ya Nuch has the opportunity to regularly attend school and make the most of her education.
You can help! MAKE YOUR DESTINATION A BETTER PLACE FOR CHILDREN Through StarKids, Jetstar and World Vision Australia are partnering to improve the lives of children and communities in need. Your donations to StarKids help support communitybased development projects across South-East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. These projects cover a range of activities including education and leadership development in Australia and New Zealand, child protection in Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, improving health in Indonesia, and increasing incomes in Cambodia. By supporting StarKids, you can help transform communities living in poverty and give children a brighter future. A proportion of inflight donations are used to pay for their collation and transfer to World Vision Australia. Donate your loose change on-board today, when booking your next flight with Jetstar, or online at STARKIDS.JETSTAR.COM where you’ll find more information. Your small change today could change a life tomorrow! JETSTAR.COM
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*Funds raised in current financial year as of December 2017. Total raised since 2007.
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