Cornerstone Project
Project Managers: Jean-Luc and Pannee Temmam
Cornerstone Project is working hard to improve the quality of life for orphans, abandoned children, widows, handicapped, blind and the poor in and around Phnom Penh through:
- Providing basic needs such as food, clothing, medical attention, educational and job opportunities & motivational programs. Read more
- Offering a chance to orphaned and/or underprivileged children to get an education and learn foreign languages, through local and foreign sponsorships, to break their poverty-begging cycle, allowing them to find better paying jobs when they get of age.Read more
Cornerstone established a base of operation in Cambodia in 1999, and since that time has provided assistance to:
- The Kolap #1 orphanage (70 orphans)
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The Kolap #4 orphanage (54 orphans)
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The Kolap #3 Home for old folks and the homeless (includes about 100 children)
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School in the Tek Thla slum (80 children)
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The Future Light Orphanage (260 orphans)
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The Kien Kliang Orphanage (120 orphans and 50 abandoned babies)
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HIV/AIDS Hospital of Cham Chao, and school for village children. (100 children)
- The Sobhana Sunrise orphanage (76 children)
- The Monivong orphanage (50 children & babies)
- The Koh Rumdual Colony (with blind, handicapped, senile or abandoned adults & children (100 adults & 150 children)
- The Phnom Penh Garbage Dump Village #5 with 200 families and 500 children making a living by picking and selling cans and plastics to be recycled.
- The Mondol Thmey Chamchao (168 handicapped/blind adults and 150 children)
- The Nutrition center with 20 HIV babies and 81 handicapped children
- The Takmao slum area and Little Friends children center with 150 children and 60 poor families
- The Vimien Ekariet slum orphanage with 30 families and 85 children
- The Borey Goma Kampong Som orphanage (150 children)
- Angkor Thom Siem Riep orphanage school (150 children)
With the support of generous contributors, close to 2000 children have been or are regularly provided with:
- Food and clothing, dietary supplements and vitamins, hygiene and cleaning agents, medical care and psychological assistance.
- School materials, financial sponsorship toward their education, vocational and professional training, computer skills, secretarial, culinary, artistic, musical and linguistic training, and preparation toward acquiring a job after they turn 18.
- Excursions, celebrations, birthdays, playground upgrades, gardening, new volleyball and basket ball courts, fixing, repainting. In other words, improving the general conditions of life of the needy.
Additionally, Cornerstone has participated in emergency relief efforts in areas of the country devastated by natural disasters.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Feeding street children and orphans.
Pannee offering new clothes to toddlers.
New friends: Jean-Luc with brothers Ponlho and Ponleu (back), amid the sea of donated goods and grateful recipients.
Pannee distributing needed goods to local villagers.
Jean-Luc distributing food staples to victims of a recent flood.
Visiting American doctor attending to locals' needs during a medical mission.
With the help of local and foreign volunteers coming from various countries and walks of life, we upgrade the facilities of orphanages that we regularly provide with basic foodstuffs and educational materials. This often involves fixing and painting the inside and outside of the buildings, planting flowers or vegetable gardens, fixing toilets, building volleyball courts or playgrounds for children, leaving behind what then looks like a new residence instead of some old orphanage.
What was once a straw and mud construction now has a cement floor, doors, windows and a fresh coat of paint. What a difference these changes have made!
Our purpose this is to introduce Cambodian orphans to the world of Internet and email, allowing them an opportunity to acquire skills that would enable them to obtain better jobs through their advanced skills, ability to communicate in English and other languages and to develop professional confidence.
We assist as many children as we can, but we could do a lot more with your help. While we may be small as compared to other Sponsor A Child agencies, no one else offers this: 100% of what you give through this program goes to help a child! -- That's right, no overhead whatsoever!
It all started at a French restaurant in Phnom Penh, where we met French Canadian artist, Richard Trembley, who offered to give free Creative Art classes to the orphans of the Kolap 4 orphanage at our Tuol Sleng center.
Once upon a time in a rich and distant land called Singapore, it was holidays, and the people desired to do a good thing. Many wished to help the needy of surrounding countries during this time but did not know how to go about it as they were far away. So they contacted Family Care's Cornerstone Project in Cambodia, experts at this kind of venture.
Recently a FCF project in Japan received a donation of 18,000 new pairs of shoes, earmarked to be sent as humanitarian aid to the Third World. Two companies packed these for shipping and a Singaporean company shipped them to Cambodia for free.