One of the Sunrise children who work on the Community Project on Sundays.

A Community Aid Project was started during the year and every Sunday afternoon some 30 or so of our older children go out to a local village or pagoda where they assist poor families with their daily chores. These include, planting and weeding in the fields, cleaning homes of the elderly and infirm, helping the Monks tidy the pagoda grounds etc. The purpose of the project is to help our children understand how poor families live and to realise that in this life they must give as well as take.

Sunrise has raised funds in Australia to assist other orphanages that are less well off. Currently we are supplying rice to Chey’s children’s home in Kompong Speu province and the Nutrition Centre in Phnom Penh. We were also providing rice to a government orphanage in Siem Reap but it was assailed by management problems and we have now taken over the management and funding of this project. Information about this new centre can be found on our main menu under Sunrise Angkor Children's Village.

We have given bicycles to both the Kompong Speu and Siem Reap orphanages to enable their children to ride to school and through the Leverton family cash has been raised to dig out the pond at Chey’s Children’s Home to enable water to be collected for use in the dry season. When completed this will allow crops to be grown in the dry season and help to make the home more self sufficient.

Further initiatives will be followed up when time and cash permit.