How Your Gift Helps

In Hagar's model, we combine caring staff members with long-term commitment, resulting in holistic recovery. The numbers of women and children we serve, however, are dependent on the financial resources available. That means charitable donations from people like you. Every single gift makes a difference. See below for examples of how we invest your gifts toward our shared goal of transformed lives:

$25      Books and materials to teach one woman to read.

Kim grew up impoverished, suffering the deaths of both parents and abuse by her husband, while barely escaping her mother-in-law's efforts to sell her for sex. Then, she found her way to Hagar. It was in a literacy class, when she learned to read, that she first learned she was good at something.

$50     Intensive counseling services for one month.

Betrayed by the mother she loved, Qujen was sold into a brothel at age 13. After six dark months of unspeakable abuse, she was rescued. Now, she is growing into a strong and confident young woman, excelling in school. After one year of intensive counseling as part of Hagar's AfterCare program Qujen remarked, "The blackness is going, and God is shining in my heart." 

$100    One week's care for a woman at Hagar Women's Shelter.

When Srey Neang first came to Hagar Women's Shelter, she was desperate and suicidal. She had been the victim of an acid attack - a brutal form of violence becoming alarmingly prevalent in Cambodia. Shelter staff provided safety, counseling and education. Gradually, Srey Neang's physical and emotional wounds began to heal. Now, she has a job, an apartment and a new life. "Before I was weak," Srey Neang says, "but now I am strong. I want to live."

$250      School tuition for one child, for one year.

Taree came to Hagar after being systematically raped by a relative for a long time. She needed time to heal, and she also needed time to catch up in school, which she had rarely attended. After two years at Hagar's "catch-up" school, the Community Learning Center, she reached her age-appropriate grade level. Then, Hagar helped her integrate into a Cambodian school. Now, Taree dreams of becoming a doctor.

$500   Three months' training program to prepare one woman for sustainable employment.

When Bhoupa was 17, she received an offer too good to be true. A promised waitress job turned out to be life in a brothel. She escaped once, only to be returned. In an unusual twist, Bhoupa's siblings sold their small house to buy their sister back. With no way to support herself, however, Bhoupa was still vulnerable. She found her way to Hagar and chose to learn cosmetology, through the Career Pathways Training Program. Now, Bhoupa runs her own salon, has recently married and is expecting her first child.

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