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This project needs career break volunteers with skills in marketing, fundraising, design, law,
office management and administration. It has a wide range of programmes that support important human rights,
community development, education, legal rights, health care and income generation issues.
Description of Project
We need mature gap year volunteers with a background in law, office work, fundraising, marketing, engineering
or agriculture. The project is a grassroots international organisation. It raises global awareness of the pressing
issues faced by Cambodian people by facilitating inter-cultural exchanges, and by initiating and supporting projects
that affirm our common humanity. It believes that peace, sustainable development and human rights are interdependent
and interrelated, and its work encompasses each of these facets. It has a wide array of programmes that support human
rights, community development, education, health care, income generation and empowerment of some of the poorest and
most marginalized communities. The Cambodia Programme has a permanent staff of ten Cambodians and two expatriates in
Phnom Penh and 7 Cambodians in the provinces, as well as 13 part-time teachers. The project has three primary programmes
in Cambodia:
Community Development Programme
This addresses the holistic needs of poor and marginalized communities by supporting community-driven
initiatives. These initiatives include providing clean water and irrigation, health care, community centres,
agriculture training, micro-credit and small business generation. The project's major community development
initiative is in the rural province of Kep.
Child Protection and Education Programme
This is aimed at protecting the rights and dignity of at-risk children and expanding their opportunities for
education and personal development. It has helped to establish child-care facilities and supported existing
facilities that provide safe and loving homes, drop-in centres, educational opportunities and protection from
harm for hundreds of street children. It establishes and manages schools in both the formal and informal
educational spheres. It develops curricula and provides training to teachers on interactive, student-centred
teaching methodology.
Community Legal Education Programme
This is aimed at educating future lawyers in the spirit of social justice and public service to provide legal
services to vulnerable people in their respective communities. This programme also works with local partners to
expand access to justice by developing grassroots networks of community-based legal advisors and effective legal
education materials to train them. Each summer, the project runs an international legal studies internship
programme, which brings law students from different countries to Cambodia in order to help further the CLE
programme. The project also campaigns for the housing rights of the poor and, as an active member of the Housing
Rights Task Force, it supports a range of initiatives aimed at ending the violent practice of forced evictions
and ensuring that evictions are carried out in a legal manner in which displaced families are fairly and
adequately compensated.
Volunteer Responsibilities / Activities
Your exact role depends on your skills and interests. However, the project in Cambodia has the following needs
for mature volunteers taking a gap year or career break:
- A volunteer with office management skills to help the local finance and administration staff organise
the main office and establish better administrative systems, including filing and human resources management.
Finance policies and procedures, and the overall financial management system, also need to be further
developed.
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