Samrong Education Centre
Samrong is located in Oddar Meanchey province, in Northwest Cambodia. Education opportunities are severely limited and dropout rates remain high. Support this project
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Our development programmes, known as ‘projects’, are local initiatives designed to improve the living conditions of the children we support in South-East Asia, and to create an environment conducive to schooling.
MEETING BASIC NEEDS
Our projects meet the basic needs we see on the ground: a child needs to be fed, cared for, washed and clothed before going to school.
And there has to be a school in the village! These development programmes are an essential prerequisite for educational support, and complement the work of sponsorship. These projects can be, for example
- Building projects (schools, boarding houses, sponsored children’s houses)
- Health projects (distribution of hygiene kits, access to water)
- Educational projects (purchase of bicycles, school supplies)
Local initiatives
We respond to calls from local partners (more than 900 in the countries where we operate) who know the families we support, the educational issues and who are best placed to inform us of the needs on the ground.
Projects are implemented and coordinated by local managers, employees and overseas volunteers, as follows:
- Identification of a need by a partner.
- Specification of the project with a overseas volunteer, local employee or local volunteer.
- Study of the project by a committee responsible for approving its implementation.
- Fundraising and project launch.
- Monitoring of the project by our team on site.
- Finalisation of the project and sending of a final report to donors.
Chan Rithy
Social worker at Children of the Mekong in Battambang
Construction of a well in the Ratanak Mondol region
Chan Rithy has been a social worker with Children of Mekong for 12 years. He is responsible for several sponsorship programmes, including Ratanak Mondol. He knows the families and their needs very well, and will be in charge of building a well on the land of the family of Choeun, a 12-year-old sponsored girl from a large family. She has lost her father and it was her mother who asked for help from Children of Mekong through Rithy.
TWO TYPES OF PROJECTS
ON-GOING PROJECTS
We are looking for regular support for our 10 education centres (located in the Philippines and Cambodia) as well as for our solidarity funds, which enable us to deal with unforeseen events in the field (health problems, natural disasters, etc.).
ONE-OFF PROJECTS
We are looking for support for one-off projects to improve access to education for Children of Mekong sponsored children: building a home for young people in isolated villages or a school, rebuilding a sponsored child’s house, etc.
On-going Projects
Dumaguete Education Centre
Despite recent progress in the Philippines, a shocking 3.8 million children and youth don’t go to school. Young girls are especially affected as they […]
Sisophon Education Centre
Helping our young people to continue their studies at the Sisophon Education Centre in Cambodia. SUPPORT THIS PROJECT
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Marie-Laure Brenier
“Children of the Mekong is, first of all, a human-sized organisation, which is very familiar with the problems of the countries in which it works, all located in Southeast Asia.
We financed a school in Kok Mun, in the north of Cambodia, in whose inauguration we were able to take part and see how much the Bamboo (overseas volunteers) were involved in the field. Then we financed the construction of a home for boys in Phrao in Northern Thailand. The seriousness of the volunteers in place in each country is a guarantee of success. Their dynamism and involvement command respect. Children of the Mekong offers both an expertise in the problems of the countries, a rigorous approach to project management and, above all, the desire to help, train and help all these Asian children grow up in a caring way. At Children of the Mekong reigns a family spirit.”
Marie-Laure Bernier, Founder of Fondation Luciole
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84% of the funds raised are dedicated to our education programmes. In Asia, over 70,000 children benefit from our work every year.
Children of the Mekong was awarded the IDEAS label for good governance, transparency, and monitoring of the effectiveness of its actions in 2011, which was renewed in 2015, 2019 and 2024.
With its wealth of experience, Children of Mekong has relied since 1958 on a network of friends made up of more than 1,000 local volunteers.
