Community

Community-based sponsorships - Some ideas

We would be very pleased to design a sponsorship package to suit you.   Please do not hesitate to contact us with your ideas.   We will also be pleased to let you know whether it is viable for us to put the package together here, such as school uniforms, or whether it is more appropriate for you to bring with you i.e. English storybooks.

Hôtel de la Paix Sewing Training Centre (www.hoteldelapaixangkor.com)

Located in the grounds of Wat Damnak and overseen by the monks of the Life & Hope Association, the training centre provides a six month sewing training course to young disadvanted Khmer women.

USD250 per student (tuition)

USD50 per student (for a sewing machine)

Shinta Mani Institue of Hospitality (www.shintamani.com)

The Institute provides free hospitality training for young Cambodians at risk as well as a number of other community assistance programs.

Sponsorship packages are available

School Supplies (www.watdamnak.org) (Sponsorship via Life & Hope Association)

Support an entire village of children with school uniforms, school kits including school books stocked pencil cases and school bag for a year - (remember in supporting one, you support many - younger brothers and sisters will go on to wear the outgrown school uniform - just like our own children!).   Please feel free to support as many children as you choose.

USD 10 per child

Orphanages

There are many well run and regulated orphanages within Siem Reap. Our staff have connections to quite a few and would be very willing to arrange private invitations and sponsorships on your behalf.   Sponsorship could be by way of financial donation, rice support, educational support or others.

Orphanages include the Sangkeum Centre (sponsored by Rice for Cambodia); The Sunrise Angkor Children's Village (sponsored by the Australia Cambodia Foundation), Missionaries of Charity (Mother Teresa) & The Childrens Development Village (LHA).

All donations gratefully accepted

Rice Sponsorship

One ton of rice per month goes a long way to feeding children in many of the local orphanages.   Donations are gratefully received by all of the orphanages listed above.

Alternatively sponsor rice for one child per month (or per year).   OVCs (orphans & vulnerable children) are children who are living within the local community - sometimes with limited parental support but more often with no support at all.   Families in outlying villages can be sponsored via Shinta Mani.

USD 210 per ton of rice

Sponsorship of Rice USD 5 per child per month

Personal Amenity Kits (www.greengeckoproject.org)

Many children in Cambodia have limited access to hygiene facilities. One way to help overcome health issues is to provide a toiletry kit.   Each should contain toothbrush, toothpaste, soap (and container), hairbrush, facecloth and towel.

(Sponsorship via Green Gecko Project (day centre for street children)).

USD 8 per child

Reading Books

A story book is a great joy to children in any language.   As many of the children in Cambodia are learning to read and write English, a selection of library books which may be donated to an orphanage or local school of your choice would be much appreciated.

Given the limited availability in Cambodia we suggest that these are packed in the suitcase and brought from home.

Life & Hope Association (www.watdamnak.org)

The Life and Hope Association is run by the monks of Wat Damnak.   They aim to support orphans and vulnerable children and to care for those at risk, especially children who are touched by HIV/AIDS.   The monks assist the children with educational and vocational training.   They clothe and feed the children and provide school supplies. Both emotional and physical support is provided.

All donations gratefully received

Sihanouk Hospital Center of HOPE (www.sihosp.org)

The Sihanouk Hospital Center of HOPE provides a center for further education and clinical training of medical professionals while providing 24 hour high quality free medical care for the poor and needy in Cambodia.   The progressive HIV/AIDS department works not only with those affected with the disease but also works within the communities through education and creating awareness.

Proudly supported by Mr Sokoun Chanpreda (Owner Hôtel de la Paix)

All donations gratefully received

Pushbikes

Walking to school over long distances is not easy (especially when you are only 5 or 6 years old!).   There is no family car to ride in. Quite often the children in the outlying villages have to come quite a distance in searing heat.

Apart from the joys of having their very own bicycle your kind donation will ensure that they can ride to school every day.   (Actually the children here share their bicycles so expect to see up to three children in one family all on the one bike at the same time!).

(Sponsorship via all of the orphanages mentioned above)

USD 40 per child

Sangkheum Centre for Children (www.sangkheum.org)

Meaning 'hope' in Khmer, the Sangkheum Center for Children is working to provide education and training options within Siem Reap.   The children in the Sangkheum Centre participate in agricultural training, traditional dance lessons, education, food, and sports training.   Without support, many children have no alternative but to earn their living begging from tourists around the ancient Temples of Angkor.

Your generous donation of a 6 months course will provide a future for a Khmer teenager.   The training covers such components as raising animals, vegetable gardening and English lessons.   As life should not be 'all work and no play' your contribution will also pay for participation in sporting activities.

For the younger children, you can support a family of 6 (and one 'carer') for approximately USD50 per month.   This covers all costs including accommodation, food, English lessons and school fees.

Agricultural training (one semester) USD 150

One family USD 50 per month

Sunrise Angkor Children's Village (www.sunrisechildrensvillage.com)

Sunrise Angkor Children's Village is sponsored by the Australian Cambodian foundation set up in 1993 by Geraldine Cox.   Sunrise have two children's Villages in Cambodia, Sunrise Children's Village Phnom Penh and Sunrise Angkor Children's Village here in Siem Reap.

Sunrise care for over 200 children in total.   The village provides the children with vocational training, language classes, sports, traditional dance and music lessons, computer classes, health care, food and shelter.   The children thrive on the love and care they are given by the dedicated staff.

All donations gratefully received

Build a Home (4 X 5 meters) (www.shintamani.com)

Generally it will take about two and a half years for a family to save enough to buy posts, wood for the frame and tin for the roof of their own home.   They will then construct that and live in it without any walls for a further two and a half to three years.   With this donation it can been done within 4 weeks and can be arranged so that you are there when it is finished and share in the excitement and joy for an entire family.

USD 1000

Water Wells with Hand Pumps + vegetable seeds (good for 5 families)

Access to clean potable water will dramatically reduce the incidence of diarrhea and infections and could help to double a family's income during times of droughts.   Via Shinta Mani www.shintamani.com

USD 90

Pig Connection (Pair of Piglets) (www.shintamani.com)

This is a live piggy bank. A family can buy two piglets, raise them for 4-6 months and then resell them for 8 - 10 times the original cost.

USD 70

(Small) things to throw in your suitcase which bring a lot of joy

Tennis balls, skipping ropes, yo-yos, squeaky toys, colouring books and pencils, hair ribbons, matchbox cars - and anything else that will fit!

* All costings are approximations only *