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Sabrina courageously took a leap of faith and joined our family during our inaugural year in Cambodia, for the specific purpose of homeschooling our children. Teaching our children, as well as her daughter, remains her primary role, but she has also found two other tremendous educational outreach opportunities. As you may know, we are blessed that Sabrina has decided to stay in Cambodia for an additional year! Read on to learn about her work, the exciting new teaching opportunities, and how YOU can help Sabrina stay on the mission field.

“The Davidson crew will have 4 school aged children for the next 5 years. Our youngest doesn’t start Kindergarten until 2024. So, homeschooling will be an ongoing need in our family for many years to come! Our desire to homeschool is first and foremost for the betterment of their spiritual lives. In addition, however, homeschooling is a necessity in our location on the mission field. Currently, only the capital city, Phnom Penh, offers high school education that meets requirements for college admission outside of Cambodia. Due to this, some missionary families feel they have no choice but to return home when their children reach high school. Other families move to the capital, where the majority of missionaries already live. It is our hope to remain in Siem Reap, which provides excellent access to the rural villages where we desire to concentrate our ministry. Therefore, having assistance in the schooling of our children not only allows Nic and I to dedicate more time to ministry efforts, but it truly enables us to remain on the mission field!

Several months ago Sabrina, Vionna, and Esther began volunteering at a children’s home run by an order of missionary sisters. Their volunteer work started with simply spending time with the children, aged 4 and under, giving them the individualized love and attention that children in group settings naturally miss out on. Then, when the sisters learned that Sabrina is a teacher, they excitedly asked if she would start an English-learning class for the preschoolers! The following blog about Riah’s rural English class highlights why learning English is a profound benefit to children in Cambodia. (LINK) 

Concerning her little pupils at the orphanage, Sabrina notes, “The kids are adorable, and I really enjoy spending time with them and helping them to learn another language.” 

Would YOU like to donate toward classroom supplies to bless the children at the orphanage? 

Needs include:

• Small supplies: pencils, erasers, crayons
• Printing costs and posters for the classroom
• Curriculum costs, including workbooks
• Early reading books. The children would benefit from books both in English and Khmer 
• IPad or other tablet for showing videos
• Educational and Bible-based DVDs for the children. (This is a specific request from the sisters!) They do not use streaming services, so an old DVD player is their only media source. Please contact us if you would like to donate your old DVDs! (ie: Veggie Tales, Brother Francis, Beginner’s Bible cartoons, Superbook)

Next fall, upon returning to Cambodia, Sabrina plans to start a women’s health and hygiene class in the village of Taom! You likely recognize the name of this village, as this is also the location where Riah has started an English class and I hold a monthly clinic. This tiny little town has become quite dear to our hearts over the last 6 months.

Sabrina found the desire to start a basic health class here when she learned that a similar class used to be held by two sisters, but was discontinued when the sisters were moved. In Cambodia, basic health education is still quite lacking in the older population, largely because this generation was completely denied their childhood education due to years of war and the very slow recovery of the educational system.

Therefore, many people remain unknowledgeable about the benefits of basic hygiene, the presence of germs, or the spread of disease. There continues to be widespread utilization of ineffective and often harmful “bush medicine”, and many people still visit actual witch doctors for physical ailments. Many Christians don’t realize the spiritual error of visiting these witch doctors, simply because they have long been present in Cambodian society. It is easy to see that there is so much good that can be achieved through providing basic health and hygiene education.

Sabrina notes: “I would really like to focus on women and mothers who can go home and help their families to be better educated and live healthier lives. Next year will be a busy and wonderful year, helping women and children of many ages through education and empowering them to better their own lives.”

Would YOU like to help Sabrina start this health class, continue teaching at the orphanage, and continue homeschooling our children, which is an invaluable asset to our ministry?! 

Will you help Sabrina return to Cambodia for another year?

Get in touch with us!

218.506.8793 or freelygiveninc@gmail.com