Programme Titles & Details
Areas of Services: The Assisting Cambodian Orphans and the Disabled Organization (ACODO) has its headquarters at Group 5, Watsway Village, Sangkat Salakamrek, Siem Reap town and province, the Kingdom of Cambodia.
Programme Titles:
I- Life Skill
II- Vocational Skill
III- Indigent family support
Programme Summary
The initials ACODO stand for Assisting Cambodian Orphans and the Disabled Organisation. ACODO was established by a well intended selfless group of people concerned about the difficulties faced by the orphans, poor/street children, the disabled and indigent families in Cambodia nationwide and to respond to the illiteracy of the disabled, orphans and indigent people.
ACODO is an accurate charitable non-government organisation that does not support a particular political candidate or policy and is irrespective of race, colour, religion, culture, or political trend. The organisation received the written authorization letter from the Royal Government of Cambodia on the 14th of July, 2008. The permission letter was acknowledged from the Ministry of Interior, Phnom Penh City on the 14th of July, 2008-Number 893.
It began in 2002 in Siem Reap, a tourist town, but it was a small foreign language school only. It became ACODO on the 1st of January, 2008. Siem Reap is the headquarters of ACODO and is the area where it was first established. The local branch here came into existence on the 01st June, 2008. Another branch will take care of Odor Mean Chey, Preah Vihea, Banteay Meanchey, Battam Bang and Pur Sat Province.
ACODO’s Founders and Staff: There are now 13 staff members working for ACODO. They have volunteered to work without pay until conditions improve. Even though nobody has received any pay, all of them have been working totally selflessly. This dependence on such dedication is unfair and cannot continue indefinitely. They need to take care and be responsible for their own families as well. They cannot volunteer for long hours and work without pay with no support for their own families at all. They have worked 14 hours (6 am to 8 pm) per day, 7 days per week. Such long hours of work are illegal in a lot of countries. They cannot continue to leave their families unsupported and be absent from them for such long periods.
The disabled who lost their physical ability and could not be able to help themselves have been also supported by ACODO. They were scorned and mocked in the society. Someone sometimes treat them like a useless person. Seeing all of these situations, ACODO is going to assist them to become the valuable people and every person is going to recognize them as useful people and they can join other citizens in developing their society; they have the same civil rights. They were educated on life skills and vocational skills like other orphans and the disabled in ACODO. Besides, they were taught dancing, weaving, sawing, wood and stone sculpture, painting, and tragedy performance. Now there are 10 disabled people who are being educated by ACODO. They stay and study all day in ACODO.