Jary is a mum in her mid-twenties. She came to us wearing her pyjamas. If you ever come to Cambodia, you will see these colourful pyjamas on many women. Some with Hello Kitty designs, others with hearts and shapes.

Hers were purple. We could see she just bought them, t...

Mother's Heart want to let you know what a difference you've made in the lives of so many women and children. You have helped 246 beneficiaries through family reconciliation, counselling and our pregnancy support program. No children born in our care has been instituti...

Mother’s Heart has been operating for 6 years, soon to be 7. 

We first started with a small group of dedicated people led by Katrina Gliddon, with the vision that no women should face a crisis pregnancy alone. Katrina, Nara and Somphors believed we could make Cambodia b...

At Mother’s Heart we support women and girls facing crisis pregnancies and help them understand their choices. Many women and girls choose to keep their babies, but for some parenting their babies is not always the best choice. Some women and girls face incredible chal...

Mother's Heart Partnership with Little Lambs Day Care

It is such an amazing opportunity to witness single mothers learn skills and then work to support themselves and their child. That's why Little Lambs Day Care exists, to provide a child care service for single mother...

Mother’s Heart does crisis pregnancy care well. However, we don't do medical care, mental health counselling, drug prescriptions, job search, vocational training … the list goes on. These are things for which we dependent on the work of our deeply respected partners.

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When we write a story, we write it as if it has a beginning and end, when that isn’t really the case. Triumphs along the way are often followed by losses. The journey of healing, like the journey of faith, is frequently one of progress and setbacks. Sometimes we don’t...

Sometimes at Mother’s Heart we get to see our clients long after they are off the books. Soklone called in recently, bearing a basket of fruit for the staff and baby powder as a donation for other clients. What a different woman she has become, confidently in control o...

Suicide - when there is no hope and you are convinced those around you would be better off if you were dead. Srey Kuaj had reached this place. She was five months pregnant and her brother, who had raised her since their parents died of AIDS, was furious. She had tried...

Getting a mother to safely deliver her baby, helping her to stay off drugs or leave an abusive boyfriend, supporting a family to accept their pregnant child or foster her offspring, training these women in new employment skills, providing childcare while she does so…th...

Never underestimate the resiliency and determination some women have to become loving, responsible mothers. When women first come to Mother’s Heart, sometimes we have trouble picturing them ever being able to parent a baby. We have hope always but even we can underesti...

The incarnation of God into our world as human is a miracle difficult to fathom. A love so deeply held, it sacrifices all so that we, humanity, may be whole.

And it meets Leakana. “I just want you to pay for the delivery of this baby”.

Leakana when she came to Mother’s H...

Rocking the baby, his breaths slow, irregular, a terrified grandmother held him tightly in her arms as his mom explained how he fell two meters down the stairs after an electrical fire erupted in their neighborhood.  As I walked into this crisis with the Mother’s Heart...

Falling in love doesn’t always go as planned. In the province, Thida was having a lot of emotional difficulties. Pakun, a family friend was asked to take Thida to Phnom Penh for treatment.  While there, they fell in love and started living together.

With treatment Thida...