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Bora HEM Male, 9 years old Home Life Sponsored School Life Sponsored

Sustainable Cambodia is a grass-roots, volunteer-based, Rotary-supported not-for-profit organization working with the residents of rural Cambodian villages to help them achieve sustainability and self-sufficiency through wells, irrigation systems, schools, training and empowerment.

Sustainable Cambodia is funded by child sponsors and contributors from around the world, and through the support of Rotary clubs from around the world. Sustainable Cambodia was co-founded by Rotarians, and active Rotarians make up a majority of Sustainable Cambodia's governing Board of Directors. SC aligns its values with those of Rotary International, including RI's ideals of empowerment, peace through understanding, world service and community service. We apply Rotary's effective "Four-Way Test" to ethical issues.

• Only native Cambodians are employed as paid staff, and all international officers, directors and consultants are unpaid volunteers, ensuring that 100% of funding goes directly into the rural village programs.
  
• We are an empowerment organization rather than an "Aid" organization. We provide resources, assistance, training and education to the community, empowering families to revitalize their community and economy.
  
• Our approach is broad-based, including schooling for children, safe village drinking water, irrigation systems, alternative agriculture, vocational education, micro-business and healthcare.
  
• In return for the assistance, each family commits to helping surrounding villages: We not only "teach them how to fish," but teach them to teach others how to fish.
  

Working at the grassroots level through our unique participatory empowerment model, Sustainable Cambodia effects change community by community. By sponsoring a child, or by sponsoring a well, vegetable garden, fishpond, beehive or other needed resource through our Village Gifts program, you will make a positive and lasting difference that will spread from village to village, changing lives for the better over years to come.

Please join us in this effort by clicking here to Sign Up, or click on Sponsor a Child or on the Village Gifts button.