Many impoverished children living in the slums of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, are deprived from quality education, which makes it difficult for them to break free from poverty. Our social work team identifies at-risk children and works with their families to keep the children in school by providing financial assistance and services such as counselling, crisis and medical emergency assistance, child safety training and parenting courses.

We also organise healthy and engaging activities such as football sessions, art and music lessons to impart useful skills and keep children off the streets.

This project provides training for disadvantaged youths in income-generating skills such as computing and English skills.

 

Project Freedom reflects our desire to bring freedom to children, women and families who are caught up in poverty and oppression.

Our team of social workers works among people living in slums in Chbar Ampou, a district in the city of Phnom Penh. Poverty, gang activities, family and drug abuse, trafficking and other society and economic problems are rift in these slums.

Social workers in Cambodia minister to low income families by providing counselling, training and financial aid via a Family Sponsorship Programme.

Activities include:

• Counselling – Through counselling, we seek to empower children, adults and families and facilitate them in changing their own personal circumstances.
• Social Work – We offer social services to the community and to clients that participate in our training programmes.
• Child Safety & Domestic Violence Protection – We aim to raise awareness amongst children and adults on topics such as abuse, domestic violence and safety through training programmes.

Our social work team in Cambodia provides training on hygiene to communities within the slums, such as the importance of washing hands, cleaning wounds, washing hair and cutting nails.

We also assist clients who need urgent (life threatening) health care and assistance with financial aid and practical help.

 

In many rural villages and towns, children roam free while parents are at work or in the fields. They grow up with few people around them teaching them positive values. Many parents are drug addicts. Drugs, alcohol and other bad life choices enter people’s lives at a young age.

With access to education, these children have better chances to improve their standard of living. Loving guidance and mentoring can also prevent many young people from entering a destructive lifestyle.

This project aims to transform lives of children and impact families in a rural and impoverished community through education and mentorship. A preschool will be set up in the locality to achieve this aim.

Opportunities are available for volunteers with early childhood education experience to consult the project team as they go through the process of setting up the school.