Shine Cambodia

We are a youth-led charity based in Melbourne running a community project in Cambodia to directly alleviate poverty. Shine Cambodia provides children and their families in Otres, Cambodia with an educational support centre offering school education, family support, social care, and health and wellbeing programs.
 

Your donation will go towards keeping the children safe during the day, improve their physical and mental health and the quality of their education, so they can give their families a better future. 

Our achievements so far

• • From 20 students in April 2016 to over 90 students regularly attending all year round.

• • Increased staff members from 1 to 6 that are predominantly Cambodian.

• • A partnership agreement with the public school giving unlimited access to use classrooms and for us to share knowledge and resources.

• • A partnership agreement with the monkhood of Otres Chas Pagoda allowing us unlimited access to the public school, to their land and to build a community centre.

• • Increased hours of school from 2 to 3 hours a day teaching Khmer, English, Maths, Health and Hygiene, IT, Art and Yoga

• • A nutrition program providing school meals for those in need.

• • Many local businesses are on board supporting us by housing donation boxes and spreading the word.

• • We have raised enough funds to provide transportation to get students to state school in the morning and at the end of our day so come rain or shine they are with us!

• • A pilot scheme for secondary school scholarships has started.

• • Escape Dubai, a travel company experienced in project fundraising and the building of schools/community centres, and Mr Sok, a local community leader and landowner, have pledged fundraising assistance and advice for the community centre.

• • Medical assistance partnerships have begun and a medical referral program is in place.

• • Football coaching available on a weekly basis and a Shine football team.

• • Water pump fitted to allow better access to running water.

• • Agreement with M’Lop Tapang to conduct regular, free, dental check-ups with one of their partners for those in need.

• • Land has been rented to provide temporary respite for those families displaced due to the repossession of land.