Community Links with Cambodia (CLC) is a community group based in Melbourne, supporting community development in Cambodia’s Mesang District, Prey Veng Province.
Since its inception in 2001, CLC has been raising funds for the Cambodian-based Children and Life Association (CLA), which implements holistic programs on the ground to assist children, families and villages build their own capabilities to escape poverty and improve their lives.
From 2008, CLC has focused on Mesang’s Trorkeat Village supporting 120 children and 60 families through the Trokeat School Program. Families are now growing enough food to eat and to sell in their small businesses. All children in the program are going to school. Families are learning about health, hygiene and good nutrition. Child rights training has seen the rate of child abuse and labour exploitation of children plummet and there have been no reported cases of child trafficking.
Based on its success, this program is now being used as a model to help CLC extend its reach to other villages throughout Mesang District. Once all families in Trorkeat Village are able to meet their own basic needs, CLC’s program will gradually transfer to the next desperately poor village in Mesang, and then the next, for as long as your generous support allows.
The Mesang Village Development Program operates entirely on money raised by CLC in Australia, which funds programs implemented by CLA. Make a donation and help CLC support families in Mesang to build a better future.
Download brochure about CLC and the Mesang Village Development Program.
