WHO
WE ARE

Sunrise Cambodia is the registered Australian charity I founded in 1993, which supports Sunrise Children’s Villages, where we have a residential centre for at-risk children, giving 24/7 care to more than 60 children, 20 kms from Phnom Penh.  The children that come to us have often been trafficked into prostitution, slave labour, begging rings, illegal adoption rings, are victims of domestic violence due to parental alcoholism or drug dependency, abandoned in hospitals by their families,  disabled or live on the streets to survive. As a result, they are in great need emotionally and physically when they arrive at Sunrise.

 

At Sunrise these poor young victims are rescued from their terrible situation in life, and provided a home, food, clothing, government school, medical and dental care, English, Mandarin and computer lessons, classes in music, art, dance and sport, but more important of all, love.  We provide university studies in Cambodia when they pass Grade 12 and we cover other living costs for them outside Sunrise for these students.  For the students who do not pass, we give them vocational training courses in car repair, air conditioning maintenance, plumbing, electricity, printing, administration, management, hospitality and beauty.  No one leaves us without a job and the means to live an independent life.

 

In addition, we support more than 150 disadvantaged community children from neighbouring villages. Their parents are often very poor rice farmers, who cannot provide their children such a good start in life.  At Sunrise they receive the same educational opportunities as our residential children and return home at the end of the day to live with their families.