Fine Arts School Project
We are seeking funding of $50,000 to film a documentary showing how desperate Cambodia is for a Fine Arts School. More details can be found in our Fine Arts School section.

Sunrise Sihanoukville
A third and new Sunrise Children's Village is due to be built on a 5 hectare site that has been donated to us through the First Deputy Governor of Sihanoukville following a request from the Prime Minister to help Sunrise.

The land is situated on the fringe of the Ream National Park and is less than 1 kilometre from the National Road Number 4 and close to the newly reopened Provincial Airport. It is about 20 kilometres from the town centre of Sihanoukville and about 200 kilometers from the capital Phnom Penh.

The land was uninhibited and we have already cleared the scrub and must fence it and put guards in place to stop squatters taking over.

A Master Plan has been prepared and the architects are now working on the detailed plans. The Village will comprise 10 family houses grouped around a Village Green and there will be a communal Kitchen/Dining Room, Classrooms for English, Sewing and Computer Studies, a self contained Meeting Room/Dance School/ Theatre, a Medical Clinic with a Sick Bay, an Administration Office and Staff Accommodation.

Each family house will be approximately 100m² and will have 4 children's bedrooms 2 shower room/toilets, a sitting room and a House Parent’s bedroom with en-suite bathroom. Boys and girls will be moved from their family home to a single sex house on reaching 12 years of age. The planned capacity for each family house is 12 children and this envisages some bunk beds being used. The single sex houses are planned to be limited to 10 per unit to allow space for private study and some element of privacy. Each teenage house will be supervised by a live-in House Mother or House Father as appropriate.

We also envisage a working fishpond with a wooden gazebo, a small kitchen garden and orchard, as well as a playing field for sporting purposes and a playground for the smaller children.

It is anticipated that construction will start in November at the end of the next raining season and the likely building contract term is 12 months. We should be able to take our first children by the end of next year (2008).

We are still waiting for a confirmed Budget Price but it is likely to be around US$500,000.00.

Accommodation
Construction of our new Dormitories has begun and we are amazed that the builders are actually ahead of schedule! We expect the building to be completed in July 2006 and this will enable us to take a total of 150 children. We already have 86 at time of writing and we will gradually take in 64 new children over a period of time. Increased numbers mean that we will need to employ more cooks, nannies, teachers and house mothers and fathers so it is even more important to build up our database of $35 a month sponsors to help pay for these additional costs.