Whether you are in position to give a little or a lot, your support means a great deal to us. Below you’ll find a variety of ways you can support our work. Choose something that suits your budget and that you personally connect with.
Poverty and slavery have no place in the world we want to be part of. Thank you for joining your vision with our vision, your hope with our hope and your resources with our resources.
Girls who don’t go to school are vulnerable to sex trafficking or can end up married and bearing children at a tragically young age. Through education, girls are protected and given the opportunity to develop a purposeful life.
Our vision goes beyond having girls just attend school; we encourage academic excellence and do all we can to help girls to progress from primary school to secondary school and beyond.
SPONSOR A GIRL | CHANGE A LIFE
“Education is a human right that is denied to many Cambodian girls. Your sponsorship is the key to breaking the poverty cycle and giving one girl a chance to live with freedom, dignity and possibility. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.”
~ Denise Arnold | CCT Founder
Girls have been subject to the worst systemic injustice and international development work over the last few decades has focused on addressing that. However, our Cambodian staff members and communities have been saying to us “don’t forget the boys.”
Boys are also vulnerable to slave labour and to poverty. Our Cambodian team is identifying vulnerable boys in need of sponsorship. We’d love you to help us to help them.
SPONSOR A BOY | CHANGE A LIFE
“Boys are the silent group in development contexts at the moment. Your sponsorship is the key to changing this and giving one boy a chance to live with freedom, dignity and possibility. Your support transforms their life. Thank you.”
~ Denise Arnold | CCT Founder
A CCT supported school is a beacon of light in a poor, Cambodian village. When you transform a school, you transform the lives of hundreds of children and their families.
A supported school is a centre of new life in the community – it represents the parent’s hopes and dreams for their children and the only realistic stepping stone out of poverty. Many parents have had limited education and have been totally disempowered from any form of engagement in their children’s education in the past. Because many parents are illiterate they do not feel they can have any say in education – we try to overcome that through ongoing community meetings and consultation.
We encourage their ongoing involvement with the school, we consult with parents about what they want for their children and we convince them that their child’s education is a good investment; better than keeping the children at home to work in the fields. The parents and wider community are an important part of the school ecosystem, as much as the school is central to the community.
We currently support twelve primary schools, four secondary schools and two teacher’s training colleges in the Takeo and Kampot provinces of Cambodia. There are many unsupported schools that we could transform with your help.
Could you, your friends, your book club, your church or your company partner with us to transform the lives of hundreds of children?
“Transforming schools is right at the heart of our work as a trust. Your sponsorship makes possible a radical turnaround in the education, health and wellbeing of hundreds of children. I cannot express enough how impactful this is. Thank you.”
~ Denise Arnold | CCT Founder
CAMBODIA
REBUILDING AFTER THE LOST GENERATION
Cambodia is a nation in recovery from great trauma. Pol Pot and his communist Khmer Rouge movement led Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. During this dark reign, two to three million Cambodians out of a total population of seven to eight million died from execution, disease, starvation or overwork. Pol Pot’s vision was to create a nation of labourers; educated people and teachers were targeted and killed. The whole social structure of Cambodia was destroyed. A generation of leaders and teachers was lost. Education is vital for the rebuilding of Cambodia, and we feel compelled to support Cambodians in this transformative work. We’d love you to join us.