Emergency response – displaced families and children due to armed clash
28 July to 5 August 2025 – situation Update
19 December 2025Overview of the immediate and coordinated humanitarian assistance provided to internally displaced people – girls, boys and families – affected by the Cambodia-Thailand armed clashes.
The armed clashes have triggered a large-scale displacement of 172,094 internally displaced people (IDP). These people are settling in 150 IDP camps in Preah Vihear, Oddor Meanchey, and Siem Reap.
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) has announced the temporary closure of approximately 600 schools across the affected provinces, affecting around 150,000 students and 6,000 teachers respectively.
Assessment
An immediate assessment identified the following issues:
- Inadequate shelter – overcrowded, insufficient tents or sleeping materials.
- Water, sanitation and hygiene – lack of latrines and not gender-separated, lack of water tanks and hygiene kits and clean water supply.
- Health risks – dengue and fever.
- Psychosocial distress – emotional trauma among women and children.
- Protection concerns – lack of safety and privacy for women and girls.
- Education – lack of learning spaces.
Humanitarian response
Plan International responded by:
- Building 70 temporary latrines.
- Distributing 5,000 personal care and hygiene products.
- Providing 720 water, sanitation and hygiene kits.
- Creating 2 child-friendly spaces where children can play, learn and heal and offer counseling for displaced women.
- Providing 70 tarpaulins, 1,026 blankets and 1,026 mosquito nets.
- Installing 7 privacy tents for women and girls.
- Building 6 handwashing pedal stations and 2 mobile water tanks.
- Installing 28 portable “LifeStraw 25 (liters)” water filters for safe drinking water.
The response reached 21,537 people including 10,860 women and girls.
Vandon, whose home is located near the border, gave birth to her daughter few hours before the border clash started. Due to a tense situation near by the health center, she left for home and took shelter in the bunker over night before escaping to a displacement site. As she traveled the long distance and moved from one place to another, she got hurt where her surgical stitches were and had a high temperature, so her family decided to send her back to hospital in town.
“Living here is really not like our home, but we have no choice, our life safety is important. Ordinary people find it as their hard time, how about me? I need to breastfeed my baby and care about the hygiene. I am very grateful and happy, I received a package of personal care and hygiene products
which can support my daily usage at least half month.” She said.
“I am very grateful and happy, I received a package of personal care and hygiene products
Vandon
which can support my daily usage at least half month.”
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