A.A. Preamble
Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of people who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.
The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking.
There are no dues or fees for AA membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions.
AA is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy, neither endorses nor opposes any causes.
Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.
Contacts in Cambodia
There are local AA Members in Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, and Sihanoukville.
They will be happy to receive your call or email, or meet with you privately.
Local members are happy to meet with you when you’re in town.
Please contact them directly.
Al-Anon in Cambodia
There is one Al-Anon Meeting a week in Phnom Penh.
If the Al-Anon link above does not work, try the Facebook Page.
Meetings in Cambodia
8 meetings a week in Phnom Penh in English.
1 meeting a week in Phnom Penh in Khmer held at the same location as the Sunday English language meeting.
AA Literature in Khmer
AA information for Cambodians in Khmer includes viewable and downloadable Khmer AA Literature
I am responsible
I am responsible…
When anyone, anywhere,
reaches out for help,
I want the hand of A.A.
always to be there.
And for that:
I am responsible.
Reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc
Serenity Prayer
God grant me the Serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
and Wisdom to know the difference.
The 12 Steps of AA
- We admitted we were powerless over alcohol – that our lives had become unmanageable.
- Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
- Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
- Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
- Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
- Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
- Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
- Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
- Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
- Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
- Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
- Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Reprinted from Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 59-60, with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc