A very close cooperation took place between APLC and the Khmer Foundation, besides the subsidies for the daily food, the medical care and the school need. APLC had only a minimum administrative structure so that they could reserve the largest part of their budget to support children needs and send volunteers to take care of the children.www.agirpourlecambodge.org.
Since 1997, in parallel, another organization, World Conference for Religious and Peace Japan (WCRP) provided an immense support to the Home 1, from the reparation of the main building, to the donations of agriculture equipment/machines and grants, the support to dig up irrigation canals.
Again from Japan, with the Takamatsu Olive Club, who gave us for two consecutive years (1995 and 1996), 100 and 150 second-hand bicycles to be shared between the two Homes and in order for the children to go to schools, which is some 7 km and 5 km distance from their Homes. The in- kind donations and nature from many foreign friends and benefactors are not forgotten and received all our deepest gratitude: we cannot quote all the names here but a list is published every year in our annual report.
The World Conference of Religious for Peace (WCRP)/Japan, headed by Reverend Michio Miyake, helps the Home with irrigation systems for the rice-fields at Kamping Puay Agricultural Project site, where 23 hectares of land were cultivated and 27 tons of paddy rice harvested. In 2004, it was the digging up of the irrigation system for the rice cultivation on the Kamping Puay lands in Battambang province. These works will continue this year of 2005. Special thanks also go to WCRP/Japan for funding a warehouse for the bicycles of the children and a transportation truck. The reparation of the big house roof was also the contribution of WCRP/Japan, refugee section led by Reverend Nhoyu Yamada.
The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany had generously contributed to the completion of the construction of the first floor of the big building in 1998, and later the second dormitory completed in 2004 as well as supporting an income generating project called Chicken Raising Facility and Training Center at Home II in 2011. While it is generating extra income for the Home, it is also acting as the training facility for the poor villagers who want to start the chicken business and to become a self-reliant family or be a subcontractor of the Home.. The first dormitory for girls was a donation from Mr. SENG Mardi and his Khmer-American Association.
Other supporters from Korea like the reverend Mother PARK Chung-Soo, from Won Buddhism in Seoul, generously donated a dining hall for the children and the construction of the lower part of the big building. Reverend Mother PARK provided us yearly grants for daily food from 1997-2004. And since end of March 2003, the Reverend Mother, who had already offered the classroom of the Sre Ampil Home big building, as well as the dinning hall, of which we owed the extension to the donation of Alexandra Murat, donated also the annual supply of rice until July 2005.
From France like Mr. Eric de Langdsdorff. From Netherlands like Mr. Arjen Luxwolda, who came to Sre Ampil through the Volunteer for Peace Organization, and who donated and installed the solar electrification system.
Our special gratitude goes as well to Dr. My Samedi, Former Secretary General of the Cambodian Red Cross, and his wife for their generous monthly contribution for the needs of the children.
The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany had generously contributed to the completion of the construction of the first floor of the big building in 1998, and later the second dormitory completed in 2004. The first dormitory for girls was a donation from Mr. Seng Mardi and his Khmer-American Association.
Some Japanese friends, such as Mr. Nobukatsu Horimoto, President of the Nagano Rotary Club, and his nephew, Mr. Takashi Horimoto, President of the Asian Children Education Fund, with the participation of Reverend Yo Ishikawa, have allotted the Home with various buildings, like the reparation of the dining hall roof and its extension, 3 plots of land next to the Home for the cultivation of banana, lemon, and other fruit trees.
2 Canadian NGOs (Same Same but Different NGO and Kindness in Action NGO) have worked together to construct a multi-purpose building at Home 2 in Battambang.
The Peaceful Children Home1, Sre Ampil was so grateful for the thoughtful support of the Friends of the Peaceful Children Homes in Netherlands (fopch) www.fopch.org
It was around 2003 there were several donors phasing out their assistances to the Khmer Foundation. Since then the FOPCH has been part of our children’s lives till today.
Our special thanks go to Ms. Feikje and Mr. Arjen Luxwolda, from Netherlands, and their friend in Italy, who came to visit us and saw our difficulties. They decided to created this FOPCH to help our orphanage financially to support the well being, education and the healthcare of our children.