M’Lop Tapang
M’Lop Tapang is a non-profit organization and currently works with over 5,000 children and 2,000 families in the Sihanoukville area providing safety, medical care, education,, training and safe employment, counseling, psycho-social support, family strengthening and protection from all types of abuse.
Vision
M’Lop Tapang envisions an environment where all children are allowed to grow up in their families feeling safe, healthy and happy; a society where all children are respected and treated equally; a community where all children are given choices about their future.
Mission
M’Lop Tapang strives to provide a safe haven for vulnerable children of Sihanoukville, offering care and support to any child at risk. We offer access to education, reintegration with families, life-skills training, creative and recreational activities, while ensuring protection from all forms of abuse. Our efforts allow underprivileged children to embrace their childhood so they can become responsible adults as well as positive, independent members of society.
What M”Lop Tapang does
Programs and Services
Outreach
- Family reintegration
- House repairs and emergency support
- Small business set-up
- Community education
- Mobile library
Child protection
- Community education and awareness
- 24 hours ChildSafe hotline
- ChildSafe network
- Breach kid’s network
- Alternative care
Education
- Education center
- Back to school program
- Community based education
- Distance education
- Special need class
Medical Services
Vocational Training
- Vocational Training
- Home Based Production program
Harm Reduction program
- Detox and Rehab program
- Alcohol users support group
- Drugs and alcohol outreach
- Prison relapse prevention and reintegration program
“Futures” Employment Services
Community Education Center
Arts and Music
Sports and Recreation
Sandan restaurant
Tapang’s Gift shops
Action with Family Care First (FCF)
M’Lop Tapang is providing direct services to children and families in Sihanoukville. The overall objective is to significantly strengthen and scale case management and quality child protection services to street connected children, children without appropriate care, and their families.
M’Lop Tapang use scalable approaches to child protection services are identified, documented and used to inform wider practice in Cambodia and taken to scale.
Their services support street connected children, other children without appropriate care and their families by providing high quality protective welfare services that help to inform improved case management and inform services in other provinces.