Cambodia Medical Mission 2026: Six years of showing up.
2,022 patients. 680 children. Four communities. Six years of choosing to show up — IHM's 6th Annual Medical Mission to Cambodia's floating villages.
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Their Names Were Called Out Loud.
Five children who grew up on the water in Kampong Chhnang — unrecorded, unenrolled, unseen — just received academic honors in Cambodia's public school system. Five futures rewritten.
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The Inspiring Story of Tao: Overcoming Obstacles Through Education.
A stateless Vietnamese girl in Kampong Chhnang faced poverty, displacement, and exclusion — until education changed everything. Her story is what your sponsorship makes possible.
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Celebrating Cambodia's New Year with New Beginnings.
A reflection on resilience, gratitude, and the supporters who turned a school into a sanctuary — and a Khmer New Year into a moment of hope.
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The Quiet Flood.
Every monsoon, the Mekong overflows and Tri An disappears into the water. See how the children of Le Van Khanh refuse to let calamity stop their education.
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A Time of Reflection for all our Blessings.
A Thanksgiving letter from the children of Le Van Khanh — meet Chớ, a 7-year-old whose life changed because of you.
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"Tết" — A Celebration of Rebirth.
For most stateless Vietnamese families of Tonle Sap, 2022 marked the very first Tết they could celebrate. Dragon dances, bicycles, sticky rice cakes, medical care, and clean toilets — all in one holiday.
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Going to School for the First Time.
November 1, 2021. After two years of pandemic delays, IHM opened its school doors — and a generation of stateless Vietnamese children walked into a classroom for the very first time.
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Inside Cambodia's Floating Village.
A feature from Urbanist Hanoi on Chong Kneas — the Tonle Sap floating village where 40% of residents are ethnic Vietnamese living as undocumented migrants. The same communities IHM serves.
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Cambodia Begins Evicting Floating Homes Amid Protests.
A Reuters report by Prak Chan Thul on the dismantling of ethnic Vietnamese floating-home communities in Phnom Penh — the same families IHM serves, now displaced.
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Exploited or Liberated. Your Call.
An urgent op-ed by Richard Botkin — 20-year IHM anti-trafficking volunteer — on the stakes facing stateless Vietnamese children in Cambodia. Content note: discusses child exploitation.
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Cambodia Medical Mission 2019.
A first-person account by Dr. Mai-Khanh Tran — 45 team members, 16 healthcare professionals, 2,000 patients served, 200 families given safe homes. The foundational story of IHM's work.
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Land Allotted for Boat People Must Be Rented.
A news report on the 40ha relocation plan for 4,563 floating-home families in Kampong Chhnang — including 2,480 Vietnamese families denied the right to own land.
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Smith Calls for Fairness in Vietnamese Evictions.
The UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Cambodia urges the government to be "fair and transparent" on the relocation of evicted Vietnamese families. The international voice for the communities IHM serves.
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Minister Defends Relocation.
Cambodian Interior Minister Sar Kheng defends the eviction of Vietnamese floating-home families — saying the policy came on the back of "environmental" concerns. The government's perspective.
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A People In Limbo.
A New York Times Magazine feature by Ben Mauk — supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting — on the ethnic Vietnamese floating-village communities IHM serves. Major journalism.
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More Than Two-Thirds Evicted.
An RFA progress report. Of around 2,300 ethnic Vietnamese families on the Tonle Sap floating village, only 700 remain — and they face a July deadline.
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No Room on Water, No Home on Land.
A Thomson Reuters Foundation report by Rina Chandran on the ethnic Vietnamese families of Cambodia's Tonle Sap — moved off the water by government order, and finding nowhere to belong on the land they were given.
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