Family Care Cambodia
Project Managers: Alex and Ann Soldner
The goal of Family Care Cambodia(formerly called Child Reach Cambodia) is to improve the quality of life for orphans and abandoned children in Phnom Penh.
Family Care Cambodia also provides educational materials & motivational programs in institutions, schools & hospitals, both government & private, in effort to improve the educational development of Cambodian youth as well as provide training & educational materials for local teachers & educators.
Among the programs of Family Care Cambodia:
- Infrastructure Development, construction and renovation
- Education and Training programs:
- Student scholarship and sponsorship
- Academic and vocational classes
- Teacher training and salary sponsorship
- Volunteer training
- Motivational programs
- Translation and dissemination of Khmer and Vietnamese material
- Christian counseling
- Humanitarian aid to the disadvantaged
- Medical assistance
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Medicated powder for abandoned babies at Kien Klaeng orphanage.
Ann making curtains with orphan girls, in sewing class.
New dresses, shirts, & toiletries donated to 45 orphans from Kulap-4
For the latest news from Family Care Cambodia, follow links below: (The following newsletters are in Adobe Acrobat format)
There are so few Cambodian language children’s books available in schools, libraries or shops here in Cambodia. So, in cooperation with volunteers in Japan, we translated & printed a full-color children’s story book with Khmer & English text. The story is of a Garden where the plants learn a lesson about being content and realizing that they are each valuable, special & needed in their own way—a very important message for the children here.
Phom Thnarl is a free school for abandoned children and children from impoverished families in the province of Siem Riep. There is a shortage of classrooms & the ones available are very rough & basic, without electricity, lights or fans. We’ve built a teacher’s office for record keeping & student counseling, sponsored the salary for English teachers who provide daily English lessons for 200 children & host an English Camp for 100 students, teaching 5 different workshops.
Presently, we’ve maintained scholarships for orphans from Kulap-4 to attend Western International School. This includes arranging daily transportation for 11 year old Det Srey Leak, from CCPCR, to attend special school for the deaf & dumb.
Sen Sabbay community in the Sen Srok resettlement village, just outside of Phnom Penh, is home to hundreds of displaced families. Most of these people were living in abject poverty as squatters in the capital city, having migrated in from the provinces due to drought, crop failure, & starvation.
Utilizing the help of short-term volunteers visiting from abroad, Family Care Cambodia (FCC) has undertaken new programs in the communities of Phnom Penh Thmai, Sen Sabbay, and Siem Riep.
CCPCR is a Child Protection Shelter that is home to 35 children, mostly girls, between the ages of 5 & 17, who have been rescued from abusive situations or sexual exploitation. Read more
Each week, we host a group of 20-plus orphans to attempt to envelop them in a family atmosphere for a full morning of activities. These children range in ages from 9 to 16 & all have been abandoned.
Having grown quite close to the children from Kulap 4 Orphanage we determined to do something to improve their facilities. With the help of local sponsors, we completed work on improving the girls' building and then followed through with projects to upgrade the boys’ dormitory.
In order to help meet the immediate physical needs of these institutions & centers that care for the underprivileged, we have an ongoing project to garner food, milk, clothing, shoes, school supplies, educational material, audio/visual material, construction supplies, fabric, computers, sewing machines, & more, partnering with the local business community.
"City Under the Sky" resettlement village, located about 20 km outside of Phnom Penh, is so named because there are over 5,000 people living here in one-room huts made out of grass, plastic bags, bits of cloth & trash with nothing but the sky overhead.
When one hears of Cambodia, a Southeast Asian country that most of us may know little about, associated terms and past events might come to mind: Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot, Killing Fields, Angkor Wat, etc. The sad reality is that Cambodia continues to suffer from its legacy of decades of war and internal strife. Per capita income and education levels are lower than most of its neighbors.
We have presented motivational programs for hundreds of children in poor schools & institutions, in the process creating a fun atmosphere for these youngsters who have so little, & putting a smile on every face!
Our Christian training & education is expanding, as are our weekly character building classes and Bible studies for those who are interested.
Each week we here at Family Care Cambodia bring a group of orphans to our home for a morning of activities, arts and crafts training, games, singing and music classes, computer classes and story time as well as a lot of personal attention and love. In order to continue with these activities and expand it to include more training for such youngsters, we need your help.