Build

Our development programmes, called “projects”, are organised to improve the living conditions of poor children. We then create an environment suitable for their education. For instance, this can be accomplished by building schools and boarding houses, providing access to drinking water, and purchasing school supplies.
To abide by Children of the Mekong’s standards of consistency and transparency, projects are chosen via a rigorous selection process based on five criteria:

• Local initiative: A project is born from actual, on-the-ground needs.
• Objective: Children of the Mekong ensures that the children’s living and studying conditions improve.
• Sustainability: Children of the Mekong ensures that its projects continue in the long term.
• Involvement: Children of the Mekong must be involved wherever a project is started to ensure serious, continuous supervision.
• Local partnerships: Children of the Mekong ensures that the project’s partners (NGOs, companies, teachers, authorities and/or the church) share the same goals and ethos.

A project is chosen in order to give benefactors the assurance that their generosity is the actual answer to a need formulated by local stakeholders, and is put into action with efficiency to improve and facilitate education for Southeast Asian children in the long term.