# 22 Three to four kids in each bed, Scott? And many more sleeping on the floor!

Dear Scott

Some more questions for you. You will, I am sure, no more respond to these than you have responded to any questions I have asked this past few years. Your commitment to a lack of transparency and accountability is extraordinary. That you have managed to fool so many donors and sponsors for so long is a testament to your skill in the art of spin!

My conversations with CCF residents, former residents, former members of staff and current members of staff have led to this latest raft of questions. I am copying this blog post to other parties. I hope that one or more might, at the very least, take an interest in asking questions similar to my own.

(1) Is it true that the Cambodian Children’s Fund now has around 2,200 children resident in dormitories? Yes or no?

(2) Is it true that these dormitories are now so crowded that there are 3 – 4 children in each bed and that some children are sleeping on the floor? Yes or no?

(3) Is it true that around Khmer New Year last year you had resident in one CCF dormitory a 17 girl with diabetes who had been sick for sometime; that a CCF nurse misdiagnosed her, prescribed Asprin and that the girl died? Yes or no?

(4) Is it true that after the girl died, James McCabe interviewed a young CCF resident who had tried to help her whilst alive and who had helped get the body back to her family for the funeral? Did James Mc Cabe subsequently ask the young man what he thought of the Cambodian Children’s Fund and, when the young man complained that Country Manager Sok Channoeurn had employed most of her family, he was kicked out and told never again to even set foot within sight of CCF? Yes or no?

(5) Would you be prepared to allow members of the media and representatives of human rights organizations to visit all of your CCF dormitories this evening, or tomorrow evening, and see for themselves whether what I have been told be so is the truth or not?

(6) Would you also be prepared to allow members of the media and of human rights organizations to speak with a representative sample of CCF residents, chosen at random by the media and human rights organizations, without either yourself or members of your staff being present?

(7) Would you allow the same to apply with CCF employees (staff) such that they can feel free to speak without fear of repercussions should they not toe the CCF party line?

(8) Would you be prepared to show members of the media and representatives of human rights organizations pro forma copies of the contracts CCF enters into with (a) parents of children who become residents at CCF and (b) employees?

(9) Are either parents or employees allowed to retain copies of these contracts or are they, once signed, returned to CCF – leaving those who have signed no opportunity to consult an NGO or a lawyer about the legality of the document they have signed?

best wishes

James Ricketson