Friday, Sept. 25, Territorial Drive Alliance Church will host a team of dancers aged 14-20 from Place of Rescue AIDS Centre and Orphanage in聽Cambodia.
The team will perform a program of traditional dances and provide personal insight into the work of Rescue.
Rescue was founded as a Cambodian NGO in 2003 by retired Canadian missionary Marie Ens. At that time Place of Rescue 1 consisted of 15 houses for families dealing with AIDS. Twelve years later, Rescue now has three campuses: home to 448 children, 30 destitute grannies and 26 AIDS families. There are also three university dorms. Rescue currently provides university and vocational training to 47 of their young adults and supports an additional 30 families off site.
At Place of Rescue, some children live at the AIDS centre with their HIV positive mothers, others were abandoned as children, and most are orphans. Some of the children have been at Place of Rescue since they were babies. All have come from tragic circumstances.
At Place of Rescue children have a 鈥渉ouse mom鈥� and new siblings (nine other children living together in a house). According to a press release, their lives have changed dramatically and they now have every opportunity for a good future.
鈥淲e鈥檝e loved having kids from Place of Rescue visit to share their dances and stories with us,鈥� said Rhoda Brooks from Tsawwassen Alliance Church in Delta, B.C.
鈥淧lace of Rescue is an amazing place. We have been honoured to partner with them, and they have shared much encouragement and hope with us in return!鈥�
The program will begin at 7 p.m. and is open to the public. There is no admission fee, but donations are accepted. For more information visit .
