Cambodian Kids Can focuses on the rural area of Prey Veng, a highly populated agricultural region vulnerable to natural disaster. Here, and across Cambodia, children as young as eight are forced out of school and into work. For a child with no education, there is little opportunity to break the cycle of disadvantage. Girls are most at risk and in a province where half of the population live in poverty, education changes everything.

We empower through education across three programs:

MEKHALA HOUSE

Opened in 2005, Mekhala House provides up to 40 girls in rural Cambodia with a safe place to live, access to vital healthcare, a comprehensive education and personal development program. Girls attend the local schools in Prey Veng as well as receive extensive after school tutoring and additional English language and computer literacy classes. Staff also operate programs in self-confidence, emotional development, life skills and leadership and the girls are offered mentoring.

While at Mekhala House, the girls are encouraged to maintain strong connections with their families and broader communities by returning to their villages during important festivals and family events.

reading and learning club

We enable a culture of learning in the community through a Reading and Learning Club which provides mobile library facilities and classes presented by Mekhala House students to under-resourced primary schools in the Prey Veng area.

MEKHALA HOUSE ALUMNI

Alumni from Mekhala House are sponsored through their tertiary or vocational education, ensuring they have the opportunity to break the cycle of disadvantage and become changemakers in their community.

OUR Team

Cambodian Kids Can is run entirely by local Khmer staff in Cambodia and volunteers in Australia.

recognised as a deductible gift recipient

Cambodian Kids Can is an Australian charity registered with the ACNC (Australian Charities and Not-For-Profit Commission). Cambodian Kids Can also offers tax deductibility through its Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status. Our Melbourne based board work in partnership with the Foundation for Development Cambodian Communities, a non-profit organisation registered under Statute of the Kingdom of Cambodia.

Cambodian Kids Can is bound by ASIC and Australian Company Law. View all our Annual Reports & Financial Statements here.