About Lina's Hope

 

As a school, Lina's Hope meets 5 days a week, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm. 

Each day the LH van picks up disabled children and young adults from the community.  At the school, Lina’s Hope provides

  • 2 healthy meals a day plus snacks and vitamins,

  • daily education in reading,

  • writing

  • and math,

  • physical therapy,

  • a craft time

  • and a daily Bible lesson. 

  • Each disabled child or young adult has his or her own individualized daily plan of therapy and education activities based on his or her needs and abilities. 

  • Sometimes Lina’s Hope takes the students out on field trips to experience the world that they otherwise would never see.

 

As a home, Lina’s Hope provides 24-hour care for 9 disabled children and young adults who have been abandoned,who are from orphanages, or whose parents have tried to kill them.

 

 

As a therapy center, Lina’s Hope trains parents of disabled children in providing daily

* therapy,

* nutrition,

* education

* and hope for their own children. 

Sometimes these parents are from the Kampot community where Lina’s Hope is located. 

Sometimes these parents travel from far away provinces to stay with Lina’s Hope for a week at a time to receive training to help their own children. 

This service is completely free for the parents and their children, including room and board during their stay as well as the therapy supplies they need. 

Lina’s Hope also shares the Gospel with these families as God opens the door of their hearts.  Often a parent will ask, “Why do you care so much about my disabled child when everyone else despises us?”  This provides Lina’s Hope staff the opportunity to answer, “ We love you because your Creator, Jesus, loves you and even gave His life for you to rescue you from sin and death.”

 

Currently Lina’s Hope serves 15 disabled children and young adults on a daily basis

with the love and care of 20 staff.

Most of Lina’s Hope staff are followers of Jesus from local churches. 

Some of our staff are disabled adults from the community. 

Some of our staff are parents of disabled children. 

In an effort to keep families together and support local families with disabilities, we train parents and then pay parents to provide daily therapy and education for their own children at Lina’s Hope.

 

Lina’s Hope was started in 2011

by Heap and Jennifer Him.