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Our education projects are local initiatives aiming at improving the living conditions of the children we support and creating an environment conducive to schooling.
When you donate to a specific project, you will receive email updates sharing how the project is progressing. It’s a meaningful way to see the impact of your support. Every contribution counts, no matter the amount, and truly makes a difference in the lives of the children and their families.
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 child sponsorship. These projects can be:
- Building projects (schools, boarding houses, sponsored children’s houses)
- Health projects (distribution of hygiene kits, access to water, individual medical support)
- Educational projects (purchase of bicycles, school supplies, holistic training)
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 the 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 the Mekong through Rithy.
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 developed and delivered through a collaborative process: a local partner identifies a need, the project is defined with support from overseas volunteers or staff, and a committee reviews it for approval. Once funded, the project is launched, monitored on the ground, and completed with a final report shared with donors.
a charity you can trust
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 has been awarded the IDEAS label for good governance, transparency, and monitoring of the effectiveness since 2011.
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.
TWO TYPES OF PROJECTS
ON-GOING PROJECTS
Children of the Mekong runs 10 education centres to provide access to secondary education and university. We also support the running of preschools and bursaries for university students. Our solidarity funds enable us to deal with unforeseen events in the families we work with (health problems, natural disasters, war etc.).
ONE-OFF PROJECTS
One-off projects aim to improve access to education and living conditions for our sponsored children: building a home for young people in isolated villages, building classrooms, providing access to electricity in a boarding house, rebuilding a sponsored child’s house, etc.
Discover our On-going Projects
Support students at the Sisophon Education Centre in Cambodia
Children of the Mekong is helping young people to continue their studies at the Sisophon Education Centre in Cambodia. SUPPORT THIS PROJECT
Star-of-the-sea fundraiser: support the preschools in Inayawan landfill site, the Philippines
Donate In the dump site of Inayawan, Cebu, 8 preschools welcome 106 children and 19 mums trained to be childminders.
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
Dumaguete Education Centre
Support education in the Philippines now!
Discover our current one-off projects
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
