CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Tue Jun 05, 2018 1:26 am Bumping this thread up with yet another story of a well-meaning volunteer from the UK, raising funds to come and help poor Cambodians.

A Scottish Girl Guide leader has crowd-funded over $2000 for a trip to Cambodia in July 2018. They say she will donate over 60 hours of her time at Treak Community, Siem Reap. I'm sure the intentions are good, and she has reached her crowd-funding target thanks to people's generosity, but is this an efficient way to really help ? Would it not be more useful to simply send the money ?

Does anyone know anything about the Treak Community Centre ? They have a regular volunteer- voluntourism outfit going with Camps International for example.
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In July 2018 one of our Leaders, Alex Groves will be joining a team of seven other Girlguiding Scotland adults to travel to the Asian country of Cambodia.

During her time there she will spend over 60 hours volunteering at the Treak Community Centre, on the outskirts of Siem Reap.

The centre provides support for a community of over 2000 people, the majority of whom are subsistence farmers or fishermen.

50% of the adult population are illiterate, this is a direct result of the Khmer Rouge regime. One of the key functions of the centre is schooling for over 400 children, from nursery upwards. Many of families of these children are not able able to afford state school fees.

A significant part of the education program is the teaching of English. This is again from nursery age. There are also evening classes for adults. Learning a good standard of English will allow students better opportunities for employment in the now growing tourism industry.

The money raised here will go towards the travel, accommodation, equipment and admin costs for Alex during her trip. The team also hope to gather learning resources and equipment that they can take with them to donate to Treak Community Centre.
Thank you

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