Name: Chhavelith
Surname: Vathdana Age: 30 Sex: Male
Date of Birth: November 06 1973
Place of Birth: Phnom Penh city
Natioinality: Cambodian
Religion: Christianarity

Education: 1989-91 Finished Highschool in Camp Refugee
1994-96 Studied English at American school, Phnom Penh

2000- April 2003 Disploma "Secretary Skill "
2002 Training Leadership Capacity Development for HIV/AIDS -sponsored by UNDP
and alot of training courses relevant to HIV works.


Working Experiences:

1996-97 Being translator at Sihanouk Hospital Center of HOPE and Executive Assistant of Director of HOPE worldwide Cambodia

1998 2001, Promoted as the Volunteer Co-ordinator
2002-present, HIV Community Project Co-ordinator

I was born in November 06 1973. In 1975, my family fled to Ho Chi Minh city, South Vietnam when Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh city. Many of my relatives were killed during 3 years 8months and 20days under Pol Pot regime.

Afterward, I lived, grew up and went to school in the Khmer Refugee Camp from 1983 to 1993 under UNHCR support. In 1993, I returned to Cambodia.

I have been working for HOPE worldwide Cambodia since 1996 until this present. My first job was being an Executive Assitant of HOPE worldwide Cambodia and a translator for expatriate doctors ( 1996-98). During that time, I worked close with doctors and seen many abandoned AIDS patients neglected and isolated from a group of people. They surely need comfort, but no body wanted to be friending with because the way they looked born skinny and smelly with cronic cough. Then I started to help them, by cleaning up, took them to bathrooms, feeding them, chatting encouraging with.... Day by day, my activities impacted my friends. Not so long alot of young men participated until today, I have 100 volunteers. Then I named this group is Volunteer Corps. Mine was pointed as the Volunteer Co-ordinator.
In 2001, I was promoted as the HIV Community Project Coordinator. I am now responsible for three program; 1. Home Base Care - provide care for PLWHA at home. 2. Volunteer Corps -serving inpatients in four local hospitals and one hospice. 3. HIV Support Group -members are PLWHA meeting every Saturday, and encourage them to become peer-educators.

In the Phnom P{enh CHurch of Christ I am working as a voluntary work, in a position as the Representative of the Single Ministry which has youth about 80people.