5K Walk to Benefit Hospital in Cambodia
LONG BEACH — A 5-kilometer walk will be held today to benefit a Cambodian hospital that has treated more than 12,000 children, many of them the victims of malaria, pneumonia, tuberculosis and injuries from uncleared land mines.
The Khmer Cultural Center and Friends Without a Border in Long Beach are sponsoring the Angkor Spirit Walk to raise money for the Angkor Hospital for Children in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Angkor Hospital was founded along with Friends Without a Border in 1995 by Kenro Izu, an acclaimed Japanese photographer. Izu started the facility to help rebuild Cambodia’s medical system, which was devastated by three decades of war involving the United States, Vietnam and the bloody regime of Pol Pot.
As a result, Cambodia still has more than 6 million land mines in place. An average of 10 Cambodians are killed or injured by mines every day, many of them children.
The walk will begin at the Long Beach Promenade downtown and continue along the shore and the Aquarium of the Pacific.
Registration will be at 8:30 a.m. today at the Promenade, between 1st and 3rd streets and Pine Avenue and Long Beach Boulevard. Starting time for the walk is 10 a.m. After the walk, a Cambodian festival will be held.
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