Educating Cambodia

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EducatingCambodia
Founded2008
FounderJohn Mann of The Rotary Club of Beaudert, Australia
Type Non-governmental organization
FocusEducating poor Cambodian rural children and their families
Location
Area served
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Website www.educatingcambodia.com

Educating Cambodia (EC), founded in Australia in 2008, is an international Humanitarian Educational aid and development organization whose goal is to provide education for impoverished children in Prey Veng and other Cambodia rural Cambodian Provinces Cambodia.

History

EC was founded in 2008 by John Mann through The Rotary Club of Beaudesert. John had travelled extensively through Cambodia since 2004 and discovered a remote but heavily populated region of eastern Cambodia. there were no schools. The future for uneducated boys and girls was bleak but for girls it was terrible. [1] John Mann approached his local Rotary club in Australia and the rest is the history that can be read in the site. [1]

Mission

To help thousands of innocent victims of decades of horror in the very best sustainable and accountable ways we can – starting with schools.” Their website states "One person at a time we will help Cambodia. Your dollar genuinely makes a difference in Educating Cambodia. The Rotary Club of Beaudesert can prove that your individual dollar joins others so that together we give Cambodian children choices that their mothers and big sisters never had.”

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References

  1. 1 2 "Educate cambodia" . Retrieved 2 April 2013.