Invest in a Child’s Future

The Sky is No Limit at the Bright Future Kids Home!

Poverty-stricken people in developing countries face insurmountable barriers imposed by society, culture, prejudice and corruption that prevent them from ever moving beyond a certain point which is not’t much beyond where they are now.

Cambodian children study under the tree at a school still to be built

Through our foster parent support at our orphanages and homes for poor children, donors have been providing nourishment so they can attend a Cambodian state school. We have also provided supplementary English and IT training at one orphanage in order to move some of them to go beyond being common laborers at best when they go out into the world.

We now want to see those who show promise to reach their full potential. We would like to support them to be able to finish a top-notch secondary school, study at a university in Cambodia and/or abroad and become thinkers and leaders.

The newly created Bright Future Kids Home welcomes not only orphans but also bright promising children who have parents but are at the lowest poverty level. They will live in a dormitory together with other motivated children and have the opportunity to study at a sophisticated Learning Center replete with a satellite dish linking to the internet. There they will receive English and state-of-the art computer skills training while developing their social and critical thinking skills. The hope is that they will become productive members of society.

The Bright Future Kids Home is ensconced in a beautiful rural setting on the paved road toward Saigon 25 minutes from downtown Phnom Penh. It shares a space with an orphanage and center for children whose mothers are afflicted with AIDS sponsored by a French NGO. The director of both establishments is Mme. Savang Prak, a remarkable, dedicated and popular administrator with more than 30 years' experience in managing one of Cambodia’s major State orphanages in Kandal, which King Sihanouk visited many times. The Bright Future Kids Home is being built on Madame Prak’s land (area of 2,800 square meters) and she will devote herself full-time to it once it is ready to open at the end of 2006.

The first stage of the construction project is to build three facilities: a dormitory, learning center and kitchen/dining area. We are currently talking to sponsors to support the construction. The cost per building is $10,000 to $25,000. Donors include the head of a California winery, the DHL Foundation, and individuals.

Bernard Krisher, the man behind the Bright Future Kids Home, helping children get their first computer lesson

Anyone interested in learning more please contact:

Japan Relief for Cambodia
4-1-7-605 Hiroo
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo (150-0012) Japan

or

American Assistance for Cambodia
N° 50B, Street 240
12207 Phnom Penh, Cambodia
www.cambodiaschools.com

For more on Bernie Krisher founder of JRfC/AAfC and his work please visit:
http://www.time.com/time/asia/2005/heroes/bernard_krisher.html
http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/technology/article/0,8707,132691,00.html

All photos and captions downloaded from: http://www.camnet.com.kh/cambodiaschools/photo_gallery.htm