M'Lop Tapang is based out of Sinahoukville but operates a strong community outreach program giving them better access to children and their families in the outlying slums and streets around the city..

Sinahoukville is the main destination point for homeless children of Southern Cambodia. As a result of the high number of poor homeless street children the almost certain impunity the city has recently become a major interest point for sex tourist in the South East Asian region.

M'Lop Tapang combats these tourists through the education and reintegration of disenfranchised children. In 2007, the organization will possess the capability to offer one or more services to 2,000 living in the in the slums and streets in Sinahoukville. An additional 3,000 will be contacted and helped by the community outreach program.

These are some of the ways M'Lop Tapang assists the children:

Education

• Formal Education
• Informal Education (arts, drama, play)
• Mobile library to outreach areas
• Reintegration to Khmer and English Schools

Outreach Activities

• Counseling to children
• Basic health care
• Information on services provided at the center
• Life skills education
• Referrals for physical and emotional illnesses

Medical Care

• Initial medical evaluation
• Emergency care
• Vaccinations
• Medical treatments, therapy and medicine
• Community education and health promotion

Skills and Vocational training Training for girls at the risk of
sexual exploitation:

• Sewing and basic literacy skills
• Hospitality
• Beauty and hair styling

Training for young men:

• Motorbike maintanence
• Hospitality
• (to come) Agricultural Training

In addition M'Lop Tapang is beginning to place young adults into suitable work placements with training and monitoring them within the workplace.