Necklaces Made From Garbage
   
People for Care and Learning provides "care and learning" opportunities for orphans, widows, and impoverished people all over Southeast Asia. In March of 2010, one of our teams was walking through the "garbage dump community" in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. This is the poorest of the poor community, where the people make their living from things they find in the trash. They found this ingenious young lady making necklaces from trash....
   
   
She makes these necklaces from foil candy wrappers and paper clips. The foil wrappers are cut and folded around each paper clip, no glue or anything else holding it together. Ingenious! This is her home (above) and the hammock is where she and her baby sleep each night. The necklaces are her only support for her and her newborn child.
 
 
She gets her materials from the garbage dump where she lives. You can see the little girls below adding candy wrappers to her collection. We ordered several hundred necklaces from her in hopes that YOU will want one and tell her story! For a gift of $5 you can pick up one of these necklaces at our office. If you want one mailed to you and donate online, please add $5 for the shipping, handling, and cost of paypal payments.
 
Below is a picture of the new homes that PCL is helping the Cambodian government to build to help remove these families from the Garbage Dump Community. Each section is a home for a family and costs $1,000 to build. This past week my husband took $25,000 to purchase 25 homes in this new community of 300 homes. We hope to be able to purchase all 300 with the help of donors. You can see from the living conditions above that this will make a extreme difference in the lives of so many people. Just to have shelter from rains, storms, animals and to have a door to lock and provide safety as well is priceless