Smallscale aid and development projects in Cambodia in

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Foundation The Bridge

• Small-scale aid and development projects in
  Cambodia in
• co-operation with her Cambodian partner
  organization Spie-en

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Cambodia

• Cambodia is in South East Asia, in between
  Thailand, Laos and Vietnam.
• The capital is Phnom Penh.

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Where do we work?

• The Bridge works in the provinces
• Kampong Cham (North of Phnom Penh)
• Takeo (South of Phnom Penh)
• In total an area twice as big as the Utrecht
  province.

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History in short

• On the 16th of April 1975 the Red Khmer (led by
  Pol Pot) freed Phnom Penh.
• The same day though, they showed their true face.
• Everybody had to leave the city.
• The land changed into one big concentration camp.
• This Pol Pot regime was followed by ten years of
  domination by the communist regime of Vietnam.

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At the beginning of the 90s...

• The schools had become very old.

• and many houses had become ruinous.

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The early beginning...

• At this stage, some people decided to start the
  rebuilding
• They made plans to at least provide the relieve
  most needed...

• Ref. Heang Koy
• Prof. Nguon Phan
• Ref. Diny van Bruggen
• Foundation The Bridge was established on the 11th
  of May 1992

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Foundation The Bridge works according to the
following principles

• Help helpers to help

• Extra attention for poor and forgotten groups

• Preference for areas where co-operation with
  local Christians is possible

• Small-scale projects, implemented by the people
  themselves

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• Within our organization Christians and Buddhists
  work together.
• Christians have all freedom to tell about the
  message of the Bible.

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Our projects

• Building of schools and houses
• Infrastructure en wells
• Emergency assistance
• Irrigation projects
• Care for aids patients
• Care for orphans
• In the first 10 years the development of a
  medical project in Prey Chhor

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School building

• Every year 6 schools are realized. The Bridge
  only supplies the materials. The villagers build
  the school, led by a contractor.
• The schools are stone buildings with six class
  rooms.
• When the building is finished, Spie-en supplies
  school furniture and play materials.

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Houses for the poor

• Every year we build 80 houses for poor people and
  widows.

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Village development

• (Re)building
• village roads
• bridges
• wells

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Irrigation projects

• By keeping the water in the rainy season in big
  reservoirs, during the dry season it can, via
  canals, be brought to the rice fields.

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Irrigation projects

• Villagers dig the canals, and in turn they get
  rice from Spie-en.
• Often the whole family helps.

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Irrigation projects

• If the fields can be watered, then everything
  gets green.
• Even during the dry season, vegetables and corn
  can be grown! Therefore less people have to
  travel to the big cities to find work, there is
  less transmission of HIV, and so there are less
  Aids patients and orphans.

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Care for Aids patients

• In the year 2000 we started a homecare program
  for Aids patients. By now around 1000 patients
  are visited weekly by Spie-en volunteers.
• They supply rice, palliative drugs, a sleeping
  mat, mosquito net, pillow, kramar and blanket.
• And the extra Spie-en-food that is made from
  different kinds of beans, corn, rice and sugar.

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Orphans

• About 3000 orphans and 1000 children of dying
  parents are being looked after in foster
  families.
• This makes it possible for the child to stay in
  its own environment, often close to its own
  family (grandparents, uncle, aunt) in a normal
  home situation.

• Foster parents promise to love the child and
  treat it as their own child.
• The child and one foster parent receive rice from
  Spie-en.
• The child gets new school clothes and writing
  pads twice a year.

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Spie-en support

• Once a year the orphans and volunteers of Spie-en
  go out for a day, for example to the zoo. This
  enlarges their experience of the world, and also
  this way they can meet one another.

• Orphans who go to secondary school and live more
  than 3 kilometers away from school get a bicycle.
  

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Board and volunteers of Spie-en work hard to
rebuild their country.
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How much does it cost???

• How much money is needed for....
• Stone school, new built, 6 class rooms 28.000
• Furniture for a school 1.500
• Playground at a school 1.150
• Toilets at a school 375
• Village house for a widow or disabled person
  850
• Bridge in a village-connecting road 3.500
• A road connecting villages 4.000
• Culvert 250
• A well 250
• An irrigation project (dikes, locks, canals)
  3.000 - 20.000
• Care for an aids-patiënt per year (rice,
• extra food, care package, medicines)
  170
• Care for an orphan per year
• (food, school supplies, support foster
  parent) 130

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Any questions? We would like to answer them!

• Foundation The Bridge
• Capellastraat 34, 7771 XM Hardenberg
• Phone [phone]
• ING Bank 67.03.01.469
• Postbank 823353
• E-mail info_at_stichtingdebrug.nl
• Website www.stichtingdebrug.nl
• Kamer van Koophandel 41189951

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Many thanks!
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Foundation The Bridge