“We must take seriously the need to invest in the education of children - for they are our future.”

In 2012, Michael and Suzanne Pawley started an Australian Not-For-Profit Organisation to raise funds to assist impoverished children in a rural village area, 18km from Siem reap, in the Kingdom of Cambodia. We were awed by the rich culture and history of the country, however, we were equally affected by its people in rural areas who live in devastating poverty. A people who had suffered so terribly at the hands of the Khmer Rouge during the Pol Pot Regime. This regime set the country back 50 years and the effects of this are widespread even today with more than 2 million people having died from starvation, overwork and executions, and those who survived suffer the effects of Post Traumatic Stress which is invariably passed on to their children.

Our charity has no running costs in Australia which allows every cent to get to where it is needed.  

Our objective

Enabling the rural village children of Cambodia an opportunity to break the poverty cycle by improving their living conditions and teaching them to make informed decisions about their future through the power of education.

our achievements to date

  • Sponsored the building of houses and repairs to houses to provide safe living environments for families

  • Sponsored the provision of chickens, ducks and pigs for families to create food and income.

  • Sponsored hand pumps to families and schools to ensure fresh water is available

  • Sponsored English classes in three schools and university training for teachers

  • Sponsored excursions to thousands of children to Buddhist sites including Angkor Wat, Banteay Srei and Kulen Mountain

  • Sponsored 6 students and one English teacher with trips to Australia, incorporating intense English language studies

  • Sponsored hundreds of bicycles to enable children to be able to ride to school

  • Sponsored paid “extra classes” at local high schools

  • Sponsored medical needs for many students and families

  • Sponsored soccer coaching and inter school sports transport

  • Sponsored the provision of stationary and school uniforms yearly to three village schools, assisting over 1000 children per year.

  • Sponsored the building of school huts to provide shade, outdoor classrooms and canteen areas.

  • Sponsored toilet blocks in schools

  • Sponsored 22 Full High School scholarships at our scholarship home in Siem reap

  • Sponsored 15 Full University Scholarships and Vocational Training in Siem Reap and Phnom Penh

  • Sponsored the provision of sports ovals, basketball hoops, inter school sports carnivals.

  • Sponsored Breakfast Feeding program for 200 children, 6 days a week for several years

  • Sponsored Music and traditional Dance classes, including traditional instruments and costumes

  • Sponsored several motor bikes for families/ students in need

  • Sponsored the provision of thousands of mosquito nets in village areas