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Project 77: The Night Shift - Cambodia
In Cambodia's red-light districts, babies and toddlers spend their nights in danger while their mothers work to survive. Join us in partnering with Saving Moses to strengthen the NightCare caregivers who show up for these children every night, so they're not just kept safe, but truly cared for.Read more
Project 77: The Night Shift - Cambodia
In Cambodia, thousands of children under five are growing up in red-light districts — neighborhoods built around the sex trade, where many women work through the night just to survive. While they work, their babies and toddlers are often left sitting in the room beside them, wandering the streets alone, or exposed to harm with no safe place to go.
Without intervention, these children don't just face danger in the moment. The first five years of life are the most critical window for brain development, emotional regulation, and a child's ability to form healthy attachments. Repeated exposure to trauma and instability during those years doesn't simply go away; it shapes the way a child learns, connects with others, and experiences the world for the rest of their lives.
Our partner, Saving Moses, has a heart for babies and toddlers living in the world's most vulnerable places, where help is least available. And there is nowhere more vulnerable than in the red-light districts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Here, Saving Moses started their very first NightCare center — a place where children can sleep safely, receive meals, hygiene support, and consistent care while their mothers work through the night. Today, they operate multiple centers across Cambodia serving 80+ children, with additional centers now running in Bangladesh and India.
For Project 77: The Night Shift, Mite's Giving Community is joining Saving Moses by supporting the rollout of the NightCare Education Framework across Cambodia's NightCare centers that will strengthen caregivers' knowledge so that the babies and toddlers in their care are cared for well.
Twenty-five or more NightCare nannies will be trained in how to build secure attachments, soothing responses for distressed children, early learning and bedtime routines, child safeguarding procedures, and more.
These caregivers aren't just keeping children safe. For many of these babies and toddlers, they are the consistent, caring face they see every night. The way a caregiver responds to a crying child, the routines they build, the things they teach, all of it matters as a child develops.
Tonight, your gift keeps a child safe. But the security, warmth, and consistency these well-trained caregivers offer? That will stay with these children long after the night is over.
1% Funded
$330 of $33,000
People served
105 served
Project category
Child Development
Location
Cambodia, Asia
In Cambodia, thousands of children under five are growing up in red-light districts — neighborhoods built around the sex trade, where many women work through the night just to survive. While they work, their babies and toddlers are often left sitting in the room beside them, wandering the streets alone, or exposed to harm with no safe place to go.
Without intervention, these children don't just face danger in the moment. The first five years of life are the most critical window for brain development, emotional regulation, and a child's ability to form healthy attachments. Repeated exposure to trauma and instability during those years doesn't simply go away; it shapes the way a child learns, connects with others, and experiences the world for the rest of their lives.
Our partner, Saving Moses, has a heart for babies and toddlers living in the world's most vulnerable places, where help is least available. And there is nowhere more vulnerable than in the red-light districts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Here, Saving Moses started their very first NightCare center — a place where children can sleep safely, receive meals, hygiene support, and consistent care while their mothers work through the night. Today, they operate multiple centers across Cambodia serving 80+ children, with additional centers now running in Bangladesh and India.
For Project 77: The Night Shift, Mite's Giving Community is joining Saving Moses by supporting the rollout of the NightCare Education Framework across Cambodia's NightCare centers that will strengthen caregivers' knowledge so that the babies and toddlers in their care are cared for well.
Twenty-five or more NightCare nannies will be trained in how to build secure attachments, soothing responses for distressed children, early learning and bedtime routines, child safeguarding procedures, and more.
These caregivers aren't just keeping children safe. For many of these babies and toddlers, they are the consistent, caring face they see every night. The way a caregiver responds to a crying child, the routines they build, the things they teach, all of it matters as a child develops.
Tonight, your gift keeps a child safe. But the security, warmth, and consistency these well-trained caregivers offer? That will stay with these children long after the night is over.