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THE NEED:

Many villagers do not have close access to clean water.  They must carry it from long distances to their homes.  This makes life difficult.

VISION AND GOALS:

Clean Water is a project under New Life Foundation. Our vision and mission is to improve the living conditions and well-being of villagers.  By providing water wells, water filters, and clean and hygiene training, and empowering local churches to introduce the Gospel because of the donated well, we hope to see small group gatherings started in each community where we work.

Our goal is to provide safe water wells for 10 villages, which would include 50 water filters (5 for each village), and 10 clean and hygiene training sessions. This project needs a budget of USD $2,350 per village.

MONITORING, EVALUATION REPORTING

We will regularly monitor the progress of the project and report back to our sponsors. This will consist of the following:

• There will be 3 months of follow-up with each village to monitor their life after the project is completed.
• A narrative report of each village will be sent to sponsors to report on the progress and improvements made in the village’s development – physical, educational, spiritual, and project completion.

NEED:

Phnom Penh is a city of over two million people, and young people from underprivileged backgrounds are quickly drawn into lives of hopelessness, depression, addictions, and exploitation.

• Young men and women from the rural areas of Cambodia who want to further their education often have no safe place to live in Phnom Penh.
• Young people who have grown up in orphanages are required to move out on their own when they reach the age of 18. Having lived in an institution for most of their lives, they are ill-equipped and unprepared to live totally independently.
• Young people from the partnering village churches come to Phnom Penh to train, build capacity, and return to serve in their churches.

OBJECTIVES:

Purchase a permanent facility for Student Dormitories in order to:

• Provide a safe place for young people to live.
• Provide an environment and development process for young people to have the foundational opportunities, soft skills, life skills, leadership skills, and mindsets for lasting success
• Provide a leadership incubator pathway for New Life Dormitory students, who will become the next generation of leaders influencing the different sectors in Cambodia.

NEED:

Many village children have only one parent or are orphaned.  These children grow up in extremely poor conditions as their families struggle to live day to day. Many at-risk children do not attend school because, to survive, they must labor in the rice fields with their families. Children who do not receive an education, cannot break free from the cycle of poverty.

VISION AND GOALS:

Children at Risk (C@R) is the New Life Foundation’s sponsorship program bringing hope and a bright future to impoverished children and families throughout Cambodia.  The C@R program provides needed school supplies for the children, and basic food for the family.

C@R works closely with the provincial pastors to reach out to these poor children and families, looking after their physical and spiritual health, visiting and following up on them regularly, teaching them about Jesus, and showing God’s love to families who do not know Christ.  With this help, the family can release their children from laboring in the fields, and allow them to continue their education. This simple sponsorship program is setting families free from the poverty cycle.

The monthly sponsorship per child is USD$35 (or USD$420 per annum). We would urge donors to commit to a period of 3 years but if you are unable to do so, a one-year commitment still helps. Our goal is to increase the number of sponsored children from 150 to 200.

In addition, we aim to run “Parent Seminars” to educate the parents of our sponsored children about the value of education and provide us with a further opportunity to share the gospel. The cost per seminar (for 30 children and their parents/guardians) is approximately $150.

New Life Foundation is seeking partners who will partner with us in having a long-term, multi-generational impact on hundreds of young people through this sponsorship program.

SELECTION CRITERION

The selection of children and families consists of this main criterion –

• Only one child per family
• Children of poor provincial pastors: We feel it is important to look after our poor local village pastors by supporting them to keep their children in school
• Poor children in the provinces are willing to study hard with supportive parents: We provide sponsorship to poor children who are committed and who have supportive parents.
• Children from Grades 1-12 in government schools: As funds are limited, we only provide sponsorship for a child to attend the local government school, however, vocational training or private schooling is not provided.  We aim to support a child to finish their  High  School qualification.

THE NEED:

Wages in Cambodia are very low.  However, young people possessing good English skills have a much greater chance of profitable employment in many areas of Cambodian society.  By increasing their English skills or adding other languages and computer skills we are providing them with the ability to get a great job.

OUR  VISION AND GOALS:

Skills Training Center has a clear vision based on 2 Js – JESUS and JOBS. We aim to give Cambodians a hopeful future by receiving decent jobs with a reasonable salary. We are also committed to sharing the love of JESUS with all the students and connecting them to church.

Our mission is to provide quality education in languages (English, Thai, Chinese), office and computer skills, leadership, and life skills for the local community.

The training is “free of charge” (a requirement by the Cambodian government for an international NGO operating in Cambodia). The goal is for all our students to be well-equipped and have a hopeful future in their careers.

Spiritually, we also try to connect the youth with classes offered by the church. We do this by building a genuine relationship between teachers and students. We share Christ’s love with them on any occasion and encourage them to join cell groups and LG (Life Guideline) classes for spiritual counseling.

Skills Training Center has greatly impacted the community and society through education and our supplementary courses.  Our students become well-equipped and have a hopeful future in their careers. Many students become Christians when they hear the good news.

We have about 2000 students studying our free language, office skills, life, and leadership courses throughout the year and many become Christians. We believe providing these marketable job skills to youth and young adults, impacts them for the rest of their lives and benefits the whole nation of Cambodia.

THE NEED:

The number of children who drop out of school in Cambodia is very high.    Because of large classrooms (60 children in a classroom), children can often get to 6th grade and not even know how to read yet.  In 6th grade, they are required to take a state test.  If they fail the test they cannot advance to secondary school.  Many parents pull their children from school if they cannot pass the test.

THE VISION & GOALS

New Transformed Lives’ vision is to provide additional/complementary education (which encourages them to stay at school and be able to pass their test) and to raise up future leaders for Cambodia.

The goals of the project are to –

• Help children be healthy in body, soul, and spirit.
•  Help children have a strong foundation in education.
• Help children have a brighter vision and positive view of their future.
• Help children encounter God and be exposed to the Gospel in a real way.

We would be sharing the salvation message at appropriate times and in relevant ways throughout the program

IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

The implementation plan to achieve the above vision & goals consists of 3 main streams –

Informal Education/Tuition/After-School Program: We provide an after-school program teaching our children English, Khmer (Cambodian), and Math. We tutor them for 2 hours a day, 5 days a week. Our focus is on children between grades 1-6. We use the same curriculum as is used in the Government Schools. Depending on the local skills and resources available, we also provide additional lessons in life skills and character building.

The goal is that the project will be self-sustaining (i.e. all operational costs are covered) after a 3-year period. This implies that we will be encouraging the local church (via an allocated budget), the local church members (via offerings), and parents (via a fee structure) to build a contribution pipeline toward the future running costs of the program. We will provide each project site follow-up and advice for future running.