Build Your Future Today Center (BFT) in Siem Reap, Cambodia is highly committed to providing opportunities through intellectual and economic tools for people living in poverty. With a special focus on children, BFT is based on the principles that knowledge is hope and peace is development. BFT’s vision is to provide Cambodian people with the education and tools required to attain self-sufficiency and well-being. To fulfill its mission, BFT focuses on five main projects that work toward BFT’s comprehensive vision to help the Cambodian people achieve brighter futures: [Read more...]
Build Your Future Today Fund
The Southeast Asia Children’s Fund
Southeast Asia Children’s Fund is committed to breaking the cycle of poverty, by educating impoverished children throughout Southeast Asia.
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At Synergy Social Ventures, we believe that social ventures have the potential to solve social and environmental problems. However, in order to realize their potential, they need support in building strong and effective organizations. Social ventures are for-profit, non-profit or hybrid organizations that use innovative business models to solve social and environmental problems. They are characterized by:
- Innovation: Social ventures use new and creative ways to solve existing problems, such as creating new products and services or applying existing technology to different contexts. Social ventures are changing the way we think about and solve problems around the world.
- Long-term Solutions: Instead of relying on short-term fixes, social ventures target the root of the problem. They choose models that create significant lasting improvements and transform lives.
- Financial Sustainability: Social ventures use revenue-generating business models to become financially self-sustaining in order to reduce reliance on unpredictable donor funding.
Riverkids Foundation Fund
In Cambodia, children in the Phnom Penh slums are at high risk for child trafficking and exploitation. For families from broken or abusive families, sending a child to school instead of on the streets to work is an impossible dream. 35% of Cambodia’s population lives below the poverty line (US$ 0.50 a day). Cambodian children are trafficked to Thailand and Vietnam to beg, sell candy or flowers, or shine shoes. Parents sometimes sell their children into involuntary slavery to serve as beggars, into brothels for commercial sexual exploitation, or into domestic slavery. Within Cambodia, children are trafficked for forced begging, waste scavenging, salt production, brick making, and quarrying.
Friends of Cambodia
Friends of Cambodia focuses on helping Cambodian youth from extremely disadvantaged backgrounds transition successfully to adulthood, without falling back into poverty. We stress three facets of preparation: Education, Life Skills, and Networking. Eleven youth, most in the age range of 15 to 19, are currently enrolled with full residential scholarships. A major component of the education program is intensive study of English. All aspects of our program are carried out through public school or university enrollment, plus half day supplemental instruction at Seametrey School, a private school located in Phnom Penh. All programs are operated through Seametrey Association in Phnom Penh.
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OTHER WAYS TO GIVE: Make a donation by check, wire transfer or securities transfer. Click here to learn more.Pari Project Fund
The Pari Project is a movement to increase the capacity of humanitarian organizations in Asia and Africa. [Read more...]
Youth Star Cambodia
Youth Star Cambodia is committed to building a just and peaceful society through citizen service, civic leadership and social entrepreneurship. [Read more...]
Youth Resource Development Program
Youth Resource Development Program (YRDP) recognizes the inherent strength and potential of Cambodia’s young people. Since 1992 YRDP has helped young people harness this strength, to transform a society still healing from the Khmer Rouge genocide; and shape a brighter future for all Cambodians. [Read more...]
Women for Prosperity Fund
A positive trend in Cambodia is the increase of women’s participation in politics. The Women for Prosperity Fund supports women commune councilors who oversee widespread villages. [Read more...]
Women Against Violence Everywhere (WAVE)
Wave supports initiatives to combat gender-based violence. Gifts to this fund go to the Cambodian Strey Khmer project “Sanctuary From Violence” to establish a network of women’s sanctuaries in Chamka Andong, a former rubber plantation commune of 18 villages in Kompong Cham Province. Here rape and violence against women are part of daily life. [Read more...]
