Cambodian Community Dream Organization, Inc.

Dream Journal – June 2025



Celebrating 10 years of Innovative Giving

CCDO has been grateful to partner with the Texel Foundation since 2015, when we first received funding for 10 water wells. In 2017, Texel added 20 latrines. Our next grant supported a new Women’s Program.

For the past 4 years, Texel has partnered with CCDO and Angkor University Nursing College, with our Health In School Program. Most children never had the opportunity to visit a doctor for a general health checkup. With the support of Texel Foundation, over 175,000 children have had general checkups and those in need of additional care have been sent to hospital to take care of the problem.

The Government and Angkor University will now continue the health in school program on their own.

Texel Foundation has just announced a $20,000 grant to start another innovative program: Safety in School. This will address Safety on the Roads and incorporate our Puberty Program as well as an anti-drug and anti-trafficking programs.

Huge thanks to Texel who make it possible for CCDO to innovate while serving the rural students and their families. 

Career Fair

Each year NGO Pepy, organizes a Career Fair to help students select their path to their future. A total of 38 organizations made up of NGOs, universities, and technical colleges were there to inform the 500 students who attended the fair this year.

CCDO was represented by Sitha and Uon who provided information to students. They answered various questions from high school students related to jobs, studies, scholarships, and other opportunities. Sitha and Uon provided a few tips to students to be ready for university studies and future jobs as follows:


1. General knowledge - They need to pass the grade 12 exam. 

2. The international language/ the global language - They have to be able to use and speak English.


3. ICT - Information Communication Technologies need to have some computer skills.
Sitha and Uon finally shared two websites for students to explore and collect valuable information to select their dream job without following friends’ or parents’ decision.

Fire Strikes

The addition of students at TaBrok primary school meant that our elective English class was squeezed out of the school building and into the kitchen/dining area. We quickly refurbished the space to make it more user friendly as a classroom (before and after photos) 

Alas after a month, there was an electrical fire that destroyed the kitchen and new classroom. The parents and government are rebuilding the kitchen and CCDO with the help of HP Foundation and Plug n Play will once again rebuild the classroom.

(before & after)

Visitors

A group of 28 students from Northeastern University in Boston, visited our TaPang school. They interacted with the kids in the English Class and Library and had fun with our preschool munchkins.

The group visited the well that they donated to commemorate their visit. They were touched to see how a simple well improves the lives of a family.

Lily Hinshaw & Zoe Zdrodowski (very mature 17 year olds) of Menlo School in California, received a grant to study the long term effects of Genocide in Cambodia. They spent a day with the students and our staff to delve into the history and get a better understanding of current rural life. They were enchanted with the children and enjoyed reading to them in the library and even teaching a class.