To help improve the lives of some of the most marginalised in a destitute region of southern Cambodia, through education, social awareness and empowerment. We are raising funds to build our school and community centre, hire more teachers locally and for outreach projects into the community
Our organisation is truly a non-profit grassroots community organisation, every penny and cent goes towards
achieving our goal of building a school, paying fair wages to Cambodian staff, involving them in the running and direction of the charity and one day a community centre to empower the local community and improve their welfare and knowledge. Operating on a budget from donations primarily ensuring we pay our Cambodian staff a fair and decent wages, we are also raising funds to build our school from the ground up. The three founding members have set up the organisation at significant private cost to themselves, whilst expecting nothing monetarily in return. Our purpose is to progress the lives of the kids in community first through education and knowledge, and one day in the future, once we have the funds, reach out to empower the local community through outreach projects projects involving demonstrating best practices, infrastructure development, poverty support and awareness raising of important issues, such as climate change and how to face it, sanitation gender inequality and child welfare. We intend to generate some longer term funding from having qualified western volunteer teachers staying and teaching for long periods (no voluntourism here, this will not be a one or two week experience between partying!) and will need to build accommodation and facilities for that in the future, but we need your help getting there! Please donate if you can, everything helps and we are currently entirely funded by donations
Our initial estimates for an open air classroom is 1,500-2,000 dollars. And our estimate for the new accommodation area (max 16 people) is 9,600 dollars. Paying Khmer staff is essential and that requires several hundred dollars a month. This is currently a variable figure as Cambodian staff wages and the number of staff, will be based on how much donations we get, but we would like to hire more and pay more to offer these local staff a better quality of life for their families.
