Mission Direct - Volunteers helping the world's poor
What you'll be doing
Reaping as they sew
Tarsha’s Legacy Centre (TLC) is named after an Australian girl with a dream to help some of the poorest people in Cambodia. It serves the New Happy Village, which has resettled scores of slum dwellers from the margins of capital Phnom Penh.
As well as offering education to the children of New Happy Village TLC is launching income-generation projects and training to help the residents support themselves and their families, rather than relying on handouts.
You will be building a sewing centre for the women of the village. There is currently a small sewing project, but is limited by very cramped conditions and a shortage of professional quality sewing machines and other equipment.
The sewing room will take the whole endeavour to a new level – beyond a simple cottage industry. The women of New Happy Village will have the chance to produce quality clothing for global distribution. They will be providing for their families and discovering the pride and joy that this brings.
And you will have the chance to buy some of the beautiful clothes yourself and help the women straight away!
Compassion in action
When you are not hard at work, we will take you to several other projects in the area, to observe or even lend a hand. These include:
New Life Fellowship, Phnom Penh: one of the largest churches in Cambodia with more than 600 Khmer worshipers. You will join in with their worship, outreach and many social, health and educational projects.
Off duty in Cambodia
In your free time you will have a chance to learn first hand about Cambodia’s past by visiting the Royal Palace, the infamous Killing Fields and the Teul Sleng prison camp. You will also enjoy watching a traditional Khmer dance, sample some tasty Cambodian food and take a trip to the 12th century temple of Angkor Wat, a world heritage site.
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All About Mission Direct
Mission Direct gives ordinary people the chance to do extraordinary things around the world. In two weeks you will change the lives of some of the world’s poorest people. You can help to build a house, classroom or clinic. We discover people and groups doing remarkable things in their own countries. Then we provide them the people and resources that they need. We do this by enabling people like you, with two or more weeks to join our life-altering trips.
Choose a country and find the trip that is right for you by clicking below to see all the options :
New hope for a broken nation
Cambodians are a broken people: between 1976 and 1979 Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge killed around 2 million Cambodians, or 20% of the population. But his regime’s murderous influence had another influence: families were split up and put in re-education camps. You were taught to trust nobody but the state itself.
Three decades later and the people of Cambodia still live in the shadow of this monstrous message – there is a whole generation that does not know how to bring up a family properly or trust others.
Contribution: £1,495
Call Jackie Johnston in the Luton office
8am - 5.30pm
Mon - Fri
to apply or find out more.
t: 01582 72 00 56