About this Project:

Mira Scholars Foundation has supported a girls’ shelter in Cambodia since 2012. This shelter housed children and adolescents from broken circumstances, any of whom had survived abuse, neglect, and exploitation. The shelter provided professional trauma counselling, physical care, and academic services. Though results here proved ever more positive year after year, the primary funder could no longer support it, and operations folded in 2023.

At this time, which was then during the pandemic, growing numbers of Cambodian families were forced into poverty as businesses folded. School lockdowns resulted in thousands of youth moving into indentured servitude, and at the same time, online sexual exploitation of children expanded significantly.

In January 2024 to great joy, and to meet a growing need to offering safe sheltering to girls once again, a new site opened and the first girls arrived in October of that year. With each new portion of this facility completed, more girls were and will be able to come as well.  That is, if the financial backing remains strong.  It’s been evident in this last year and a half that the problems caused by these girls’ broken backgrounds are transformed here as they have their basic needs met for food, clothing, schooling, and housing; they can rest with a sense of security.  

Your donation provides a safe space for these children.  Contributions of all sizes are warmly welcomed.

About This Organization: 

Per Family Care Cambodia –

FCC is recognized by the Cambodian government with MOUs from Ministries of Foreign Affairs, and Education, Youth, and Sports. Our activities include: translation, production and distribution of children’s books, and assisting a shelter for minor girls rescued from sexual exploitation and domestic violence. We provide English, computer and art classes; rice and cooking gas monthly, and weaving looms and sewing machines for vocational training. We built and maintain a second story with bedrooms and lavatories. At a primary school in Siem Reap, we built and furnished an IT lab, teacher’s office, 3-classroom school building and student lavatories. 300+ students benefit from our English, computer and sports training. 60 students benefit from our assisting a village school. We operate a hostel for 20 rural boarding students earning their post graduate degrees. We also help with the annual Cambodian Special Olympic Games.