I would like to welcome you to the Assisting Cambodian Orphans and the Disabled Organisation (ACODO) website. This is an exciting time for me in oth my projects and my personal life. The ACODO (NGO) was established on the 1st of January 2008. The ACODO (NGO) is a non-governmental, non-profit organisation established to assist vagabonds,orphans, the disabled, street/poor children, and indigent family support in the Cambodia nationwide. The ACODO truly believes every life has equal value and each individual deserves the opportunity to have a better way of life. As one who received a chance and has succeeded in life because of ACODO’s supporting, I know how valuable chances are. It is our programmes purpose to give these vulnerable groups and small local charitable organisations that same opportunity by contributing to and assisting them in their endeavors. You will find ways to support our projects on the pages of this website under ACODO and Sponsorship. The Khmer traditional performances generated in our programme are also donated to ACODO’s projects. You can also donate directly to the ACODO under the Donate section of the website. The Khmer traditional performance proceeds also go to the ACODO, so please be sure to visit the ACODO orphanage and learn more about our children and our projects !. A donation for someone special from you will also help others. For those of you interested in ACODO’s programme as a donor/sponsor, and ACODO ingeneral, I have shared my life in charity from my start at the age of 25 to my ongoing job today. I hope you will enjoy finding many things you didn't know about ACODO and my job as well as finding tidbits that you already knew. This information is documented under ACODO’s programmes. I am proud to share my accomplishments with you, my fans. I will try to keep you updated on ACODO events as well as events in my job and life. Our Gallery has photos from both charitable events and our jobs. The Videos section shows replays of many of my most memorable tasks throughout my work. These videos have been contributed by generous people, voluntary teachers, and generous visitors, many who have spent the time and made You Tube videos as a labor of love by adding Khmer traditional dance, music and other features. I would like to thank generous people, voluntary teachers, and generous visitors. We will add to the list of videos as time goes on and welcome you to contact us with videos or pictures you would like to see on this site. Please visit the sites of my sponsors and other links I have included. Many of these wonderful jobs support our programmes by donating a contribution to ACODO projects generated from our website.
Please read it carefully, you will understand what we are doing at the moment. The orphans, the disabled children, voluntary teachers and also ACODO’s staff are working and living under their patience-operating without sponsorship and - without financial support. I would like you all to learn more about the orphans, the disabled people and the ACODO’s staff working and living conditions in ACODO’s projects. ACODO has been providing 64 children ( 7 new children accepted into the orphanage) with shelters, three meals every day, daily supplies (clothes, shoes, mosquito nets, blankets, mattress), medical supplies, school supplies, especially education and rice supplies, and also other things to use every day. The children and the disabled people in ACODO have been providing three hours every day of learning languages and their teachers are voluntary teachers who come from different countries around the world. Besides those, the children have been regularly sent to public school the same as other children with parents as well. There are 64 children and 16 key staff, in total 80 people who are fed in ACODO now, which is including the key staff of:• Two nurses to take care of and provide them 24 hours’ services.• Two cooks to prepare food for them.• Two cleaners to wash the children’s clothes and clean the shelters.• Two security guards to patrol them 24 hours to ensure their secure environment.• One driver to take them to public schools and pick them up.• Three art teachers to teach them Khmer traditional dance and how to play Khmer musical instruments as well.• And four ACODO’s founders to operate and coordinate the projects to go ahead with finding volunteers, funds, partnership, and financial support. About ACODO children: The age of the children ranges from 3 to 19 and they are separated into three groups as ACODO programme set, providing them with:1- The children from 3 to 6 years of age have been providing with Health-Care Programme,2- From 7 to 20 years of age have been providing with Educational Opportunities,3- And the children over the age of 20 must be provided with vocational skills and jobs by ACODO Policies and Strategies. Moreover, ACODO also have to spend $ 37.5 USD on 50 kilograms of rice, $30 USD on food for three times every day, $ 300 USD on housing for a month, $ 350 USD on petrol for a month, $ 180 USD on services of Internet every month, and also around $ 175 USD on utilities. In total,$ 101 USD is spent every day, $ 707 USD per week, and $ 3,131 USD is spent for a month.
So far ACODO has implemented its activities without funding from any funding agencies or supporting money from any private source and it is facing a lack of financial support. The money and development materials, which have had to support ACODO’s activities implementation until now, are from contributions from staff, voluntary teachers and generous visitors.
ACODO has not had any partner in development yet and it has now been established since the first of January 2008. We now face great difficulty in running our programmes and we are continually badly in need of help from some generous people, Local and International Non- Governmental Organisations to keep our work and projects in existence. Our staff is working voluntarily and we continually have many problems with supporting street children, orphans, the disabled people, vagabonds, and indigent people and also trying to implement our projects. Please contact and help us, if the ACODO programme sounds like it would be of interest to you.
In response to the above-mentioned subject and reference, you can donate a contribution to ACODO by using a charity bank on DONATION PAGE. All the funds are going to be used to solve the above problems.
I, Hengchhea Chheav, would like to wish you a productive and rewarding career with ACODO.
Warm regards,
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Hengchhea Chheav
The President of ACODO
ACODO is a Cambodian non-governmental organization assisting the orphans, the disabled and indigent families through providing Life-and-Vocational Skills and Indigent Family Support Development Program. ACODO was registered as a charity in Phnom Penh on the 14 of July, 2008 - Number 893