Life at Save Children in Asia (SCAO) is slowly evolving. The children are enjoying many activities that the center now offers thanks to your generous donations. We now have a computer room a soccer team and official school uniforms. Our new location conveniently located next to the, Khmer Culture Center.
We are still looking for volunteers to participate in the program and reside on campus and assist us with the many tasks that are needed at the center. Please feel free to contact us anytime or you can follow us on Facebook or Twitter for more news on the SCAO
For the first time, SCAO will soon be creating its own cookbook! The cookbook will include many native Cambodian recipes that will feature everything from coconut curry, spicy curry, to sweet sticky rice, spring rolls, and pumpkin dishes. If you know of any Khmer recipes that you would like to include or have good photos of Khmer food, please email amcguckian@gmail.com.
Photos by Alice McGuckian
The SCAO cookbook will feature pictures of the kids along with images of daily life at SCAO. The cookbook will be available for purchase with 100% the profits going directly towards the NGO organization. Don’t miss out on getting this amazing cookbook! It will bring back a lot of great memories of SCAO!
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You can now book a working holiday with SCAO on Ecoteer.com
Ecoteer is a unique volunteer agency offering a directory of cheap volunteer work opportunities, jobs abroad and working holidays. Volunteer opportunities are very reasonable. Ecoteer is leading the way in a new type of volunteer work abroad benefiting the volunteer project.
We just created a Facebook Group so that all volunteers and children that live and work at the day care center can share their thoughts experiences at Save Children in Asia. It seems fitting since most people that travel to the Far East use Facebook to communicate with their friends.
We are very pleased with the great response from the children and SCAO volunteers.
Here are some of the post from the Children of SCAO.
Ngorl Lion
Hi! I’m lion. I’m also live in SCAO too! So I’m enjoy here so much, I love Everyone here like my family and also I keep SCAO is my house already! I’m in high school now and I’m finish in this year for high school, so I’m also help teaching kids too, I love them I’m enjoy with them and volunteers we been really friendly and we’re keep like in one family, by the way I love SCAO and I hope all volunteers be back, all the best from lion…:)
Lim Sreyla
I see all of you look so kind I feel relaxed when I hear your sound !!Thanks for helping Cambodia people!!!
Som Hom
I was of the kid who live in SCAO that the center help me to continue my study and now I’m ready to go to the third year at University and now I’m still live in the center and I can help for the English class at the center too. Many thanks for the volunteers that they spent there at SCAO:):):)
It is amazing how well the children speak and write English. Your continued support makes all of this possible. Please join our Facebook Group and come and visit our SCAO family in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. We look forward to seeing you soon.
We hope you are all safe, happy and healthy. Here at SCAO everything is going very well and we thought it was time we gave you all an update on the latest news. The kids are going well at school, studying hard and moving up in school and university. Srey Lat is keeping busy at English school and studying business at university and Hom is studying to be a vet at uni, they are both also teaching classes at SCAO. Nita, Chan and Lion are working hard at high school and Ly, Lim, Leap, Sey Ma, Srey Hoy, Pon, Vireak, Srey Lia, Li and Lee Mai are all at the Primary school next door to the centre. Sey Ha and Ra have jobs at a motorbike shop and Din is working as the security guard at the new school.
As many of you may know SCAO, with the help of the SCOOP foundation and other private donations, is building a second school in the countryside near Phnom Penh. The school will give the children of many families access to free English, drama and art classes and provide community education by working with families to improve their living standards. We expect this to have a large, lasting impact on the futures of around 350 children and their families.
Visit our Facebook Community Page to view some more photos of recent times at SCAO. We took a trip to Odong mountain and to the national museum. We also celebrated Chon Long and Britta’s (a volunteer) birthdays with lots of singing and dancing.
There are also some photos of the new school we are currently building to provide education to even more Cambodian children. We are hoping the school will be finished in about a month and a half depending if we have enough funding.
We want to thank you for all the support you have given us this year and to all the volunteers.
We have had a great year at SCAO, thank you for everything.
Please stay in contact and don’t forget to look at our website and Facebook page to keep up with SCAO.
We are excited to tell you the children now have access to computers and the Internet. This is a big step for S.C.A.O. and we are confident it will help us in our education efforts. Some of the older students have created Facebook profiles for themselves and are discovering the wonderful world of social media. Connect with Srey Lat on Facebook and say hello to Mr. Samith on his Facebook page while you’re at it!
And as you can see in the photo below, the younger students love their computers too.
Educating our children is of the utmost importance. We are extremely thankful for our volunteers who donate books and work as teachers. Check out our students reading and learning about body parts!
We recently updated the S.C.A.O. donations page to make it easier for you to support these wonderful children. Donations are the lifeblood of S.C.A.O. and we appreciate your generosity. Donations made for the “Bricks for S.C.A.O.” initiative will help us build our new school. A $25 dollar donation will buy 5 bricks. All other donations will go directly to the children and will be used to house, feed, and educate them.
Visit the S.C.A.O. Donations page if you would like to make a donation or go to the S.C.A.O. Volunteer page to learn about volunteer opportunities.
Thank you so much for your support! Come back often to learn about the new and exciting projects we are working on!
Everyone at SCAO was so anxious and excited to send us pictures of the new school’s location. All of the SCAO’s faculty and volunteers have been busy building and prepping the site for the past couple of months. The visit to the site was extremely special, because it was the first time many of the children were able to see, explore and roam the grounds of where there brand new school is going to be!
SCAO is planning to open a second education center that will offer free English classes in mid 2011. The new center will be located in a beautiful and authentic farming and fishing village just north of Phnom Penh in the Pursat Mountain region only 12 km north of the present SCAO center.
