Project Focus: Cambodia, Sokhem Sibling School

Cambodia

$9,710

Amount Raised

About this Fundraiser

We are partnering with Love Without Boundaries to build a sibling school in Sokhem, a rural village on the border of Cambodia and Thailand. Love Without Boundaries will implement a holistic community program that provides nutrition, healthcare, education, and childcare.

The sibling school will serve the infants and toddlers of working mothers, many of whom leave home to cross into Thailand well before first light and don’t return until late in the evening. This care center will allow the older children to attend school fulltime and will also provide the babies with much needed nutrition. An alarming 75% of the children in this village suffer from chronic malnutrition. Not only that, but the sibling school will also provide employment to seven women in the area—a director, four caregivers, and two aides.

We have committed to raising $14,320—approximately half of what it will take to build the sibling school. LWB will be covering the cost of the land, the foundation, and the iron roof. We’ll be covering the rest. What does that look like?

$10 = ONE BRICK AND TRANSPORTATION COSTS (1,200 BRICKS NEEDED)
$20 = ONE DOOR (6 DOORS NEEDED)
$150 = SIGNS
$250 = PAINT
$300 = ELECTRICITY
$500 = TOILETS
$1000 = WATER TANK (OR 10 FRIENDS GIVE $100 EACH!)

Because LWB is the only NGO working in the area, we have the ability to affect real and unique change in an underserved region. We have an immense amount of respect for the work LWB has done around the world to improve the lives of vulnerable communities, and we are honored to partner with them on this new venture in Cambodia.