ActionAid’s Child Sponsorship §

• Child Sponsorship (CS) is part of the ActionAid’s funding program to connect children of a community with the sponsor/funder who is pledging to improve their livelihood.
  • Aim: to be the catalyst of social change

Process of Child Sponsorship Program §

• The types of communicative material in the CS program
  1. Child Sponsorship Report: are measurements of what Actionaid does.
     • how their money is spent and send to sponsor
     • impact, result,
  2. Soft Story Report send to sponsor
  • Child corner: what benefits kids in the society got from the program
  1. facts and figure report: 5w1h
  2. Gift Fund Report: funder want to add more money over their monthly payments
     • equally distribute in society in events or things that help everyone at once
     • no jealousy
• SK: Sahakom is the system filled with CM, PU, background
  • Before it was NK: African word meaning Chain Link, represent the connection between children
  • SK: 45 countries voted for it to be a Khmer word
  • record all info of children, photo, report, plan. It’s a database of all things related to the child program.

Partern Orgs §

• 005 Pursat: BCV, RFCD
• 006 Kampot: CWDC
• 010 Kompong Thom
• 013 Koh Kong
• 020 Udor Meanchey

Funding Mechanism §

• Foreign Affiliates (FA): are the countries which sends monthly funds to our CS program. Currently there are 5
  • Italy
  • Greece
  • UK
  • Australia
  • Ireland
• Currently there is 7,240 children with links to FA(s)
• Child Messages are collected twice a year
  • There p1 and p2: 6 months each (3-8, 9-2)
  • 4 months to collect, 2 months to translate
• How they raise funds in FA countries
  • Racing events, marathon, concerts, and fundraising in other countries that brings money in as charity to ActionAid.

Approach §

• Actionaid became transformed from a service providing organization (Charity) to HRBA (Human rights based approach) to help families make money for themselves
  • helps parents or families
  • child is the connection to sponsor
  • teaching parents to plants
  • to teach them what they are entitled to, where they can get it, who to tell
  • empower people living in poverty

Child Message (CM) §

• Sincerely, with love, warm wishes,
  • name of child should be on the bottom right of the page
• Bottom Left: (Translated by ____)
• There should be a title of each Child Message
• Title
  • First Message: Welcome to Cambodia
  • Standard & Goodbye:
    • Sending loves from Cambodia
    • Greetings from Cambodia
• Greeting phrase for each country
  • Italy: Dear ___
  • UK, Australia, Greece, Ireland: Dear sponsor
• Don’t(s)
  • Don’t mention something sensitive to sponsor
    • That brings trouble to the org
    • Actionaid is not about policing domestic issues
    • It goes both ways, from sponsor to child as well
      • Give child more advantage
  • No asking for more: actionaid isn’t a charity

ActionAid’s Child Messages

Useful Notes to Self §

• Inform or send absent forms to bong Pros/Dyna
• Inform telegram if you’re late
• Don’t put any full names in the CM(s)

Daily CM Translation Tracking 2022

Renaming §

for filename in *.jpg
do text=$(tesseract "$filename" stdout | grep "LRP")
	cp "$filename" renamed/"$text".jpg
done
 
## | cut -f2 -d":"| to only pick the second field to rename
##	cut -c  == means skip the first and move to the second character
## head -1 is used to only output the first line, isn't needed in this case
for filename in *.png
do text=$(tesseract "$filename" stdout | grep "KH" | awk '{print $2} | cut -c 2-)
cp "$filename" renamed/"$text".png
done

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• Feedbacks
  • Rachana:
    • Used the wrong gender pronoun x2
    • Welcome to Cambodia instead of Welcomes to Cambodia
      • Only use Welcome when its their first message
    • Random capitalized letters
    • Crop is not a verb, its a noun
    • Fishery is not a very, Fishing is a verb
  The locals are harvesting rice yields