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The
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WHO
WE ARE
Kid's
Hope was founded in 2002 by a group of Khmer Tour
Leaders with the aim of helping the children of Cambodia.
As employees of an international tour operator, we
began helping by bringing food, clothes and school
stationeries to poor families we met whilst touring.
We collected supplies from laundrettes and some of
our generous passengers. We shared a part of our salary
to offer basic needs and our time to provide some
basic English to children of poor villages. In 2006,
after years of experience in toursim, we decided to
start up our own travel agency and to extend our charity
work.
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CHILDREN'S
LIFE IN CAMBODIA
More
than one third of Cambodian live below the poverty
line, struggling to survive on less than $1 a day.
Poverty is especially pervasive in rural areas and
among children, who constitue more than half of the
country's population (Unicef). Children's safety is
substandard in Cambodia; 60,000 chidren under 5 years
of age still die every year! The numerous reasons
include; disease - although a lot are preventable
by vaccination - diarrhoea, respiratory infections,
malnutrition, insalubrity, HIV prevalence and accidents
(road, drowning, UXO). In addition, poverty effects
children’s schooling (unaffordable tuition,
child labour) and in turn this increases their vulnerability
(street children, exploitation including sexual abuse,
drug and alcohol issues).
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OUR
OBJECTIVES
Every
child is a gift and should receive the best care so
they can grow in happiness within a loving family. The
aim of our contribution is to provide better living
conditions for the children of our country and therefore
improve their future. For this, children must receive
the basic needs. We focus on bringing them the 4 following
necesseties: protection, education, health and a healthy
supply of drinking water.
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OUR
PROJECT
Green
Elephant Travel donates 20% of its total profit directly
to Kid's Hope. A large amount of this will be donated
to other NGO’s and charity organizations working
in Cambodia on the 4 topics mentioned above. The rest
will be channelled into our personal charity projects
(payment of school fees and supplies for selected impoverished
children, the building of water pumps in poor villages,
free transfers to hospitals for children from remote
areas who need medical care). In addition, 10% of revenue
from all trips booked through the Green Elephant Travel
website will be directly transferred to Kid’s
Hope. Furthermore, we allocate 5$ per traveller (already
included in the price of the tours) to donate to all
NGOs and Charities visited during our trips. |
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WE
ARE CONCERNED ABOUT OUR CHILDREN FOR THEY ARE THE FUTURE
OF OUR BELOVED CAMBODIA... |
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