Project Updates
Great progress being made on our new secondary school for 300 deeply underprivileged Burmese migrant children in Mat Sot, Thailand. A safe, bright and happy space for these young children who have been through so much already in life. Opening Late July 2022.
The Paul Sweet Nursery is open!
A bright, safe and happy place for young Burmese migrant children in Mae Sot to learn and play. Working with these children at this time is more important than ever, given the very difficult circumstances they are leaving behind in their home country.
This is a very special building and the first of it's kind in the area. The teachers, community and most importantly the children (with integrated play equipment! ) are absolutely delighted with their new building.
The Alice Rose Clover Child Development Centre IS OPEN!!
A safe and happy space for thousands of vulnerable children over the coming years to seek refuge, therapy and rehabilitation with a particular focus on young victims of the horrifying sex trade.
This building will work in conjunction with our already existing girls' village just a short walk away in CDO, The Philippines.
We broke ground in August last year and completed on time yesterday, it certainly hasn't been the easiest project to pull off during Covid, but we got there in the end!
A safe space for over 100 deeply underprivileged children to learn and play in Varin, Cambodia. Completed on time and within budget. Come rainy season this building will be surrounded in lush grass and palm trees.
The results are in! The kids have chosen the colours for their new school in Varin Cambodia. A safe space for over 100 deeply underprivileged children. Painting starts this week!
In February this year we will be breaking ground on a new safe school for the suppressed and vulnerable Burmese migrant children living in Mae Sot, Thailand. The designs are looking great!
Our new Child Development Centre construction is making great progress and is a little ahead of schedule.
This centre will provide much-needed space not only for the 52 young women of our children’s village in CDO, but also for 750 children from the community slum areas. The centre will be focused on counselling, rehabilitation and vocational training.
Many of these young girls have been through unimaginable horrors at the hands of sex-traffickers, kidnappers and domestic abusers.
Kids in need of psycho-social services such as counselling, trauma-/psychotherapy will be treated at the centre, children with all kinds of needs ranging from social, educational, medical and legal/paralegal needs will seek assistance at the centre.
The next step in helping these incredibly brave young women move on to happier futures.
GROUND BREAKING AND CONSTRUCTION UNDERWAY!
A new primary school for the deeply underprivileged children of the Srae Nouy Commune, Varin District, Cambodia.
The children currently attend an existing school 80km from Siem Reap which has 90 students and 4 teachers. We are building a brand new school that will vastly improve the day to day lives of the students and teachers.
We are keeping the building simple with a large roof that can provide space for outdoor learning and covered play. With built in flexibility for the school to adapt and grow within the space easily adding classrooms as they grow and need more space.
Due to flooding we were delayed by 10 days in breaking ground, during this time the team focused on building the furniture for the classrooms.
Mostly underground work so far, with columns starting next week.
We aim to open the new building in late Feb 2021.
We have had a run of great weather meaning our new Child Development Centre construction is a little ahead of schedule. This centre will provide much-needed space not only for the 52 young women of our children’s village in CDO, but also for 750 children from the community slum areas. The centre will be focused on counselling, rehabilitation and vocational training.
Many of these young girls have been through unimaginable horrors at the hands of sex-traffickers, kidnappers and domestic abusers.
Kids in need of psycho-social services such as counselling, trauma-/psychotherapy will be treated at the centre, children with all kinds of needs ranging from social, educational, medical and legal/paralegal needs will seek assistance at the centre.
The next step in helping these incredibly brave young women move on to happier futures.
Building is going very well and we are laying the concrete for the 3rd level this week.
ICF is delighted to continue our support of KOTO during these difficult times. KOTO is a wonderful initiative training children in a working restaurant to begin their careers in hospitality. The children are often from the street and homeless, KOTO takes them in and looks after them along with providing them with vocational training.
Unfortunately the restaurant was forced to close because of Covid restrictions. However they now have a beautiful new location, in an upmarket residential area and a new business model focused on residents and expats rather than purely tourists. We helped to fund their new professional working kitchen and we wish them all the luck in the world with their new venture.
The restaurant officially opened last week and the team is extremely happy with their new venue. Below are photos of the new kitchen, photos of opening party to follow!
Opened in 2013 this project goes from strength to strength, a safe learning environment for the deeply underprivileged Burmese immigrant kids from the nearby fishing community.
When we built the school there was no road, water or electricity in the area, we installed it all, as a result there are now businesses, affordable housing and even a mushroom farm! Fantastic to see not only the kids flourish, but also the knock on effect of our work throughout the community.
Fantastic progress being made at our new project in the Philippines, foundations laid and columns in. We are ahead of schedule and its all hands on deck!
A new primary school for the deeply underprivileged children of the Srae Nouy Commune, Varin District, Cambodia.
The children currently attend an existing school 80km from Siem Reap which has 90 students and 4 teachers. We plan to build a brand new school that will vastly improve the day to day lives of the students and teachers.
The existing school building
Our basic idea is to try and keep the building simple, but build a large roof that can provide space for outdoor learning and covered play.
We also want to try and build in flexibility for the school to adapt and grow within the space easily adding classrooms as they grow and need more space.
We will be discussing these plans further with the villagers and the school community in the coming weeks. We aim to break ground on this project in October 2020
GIRLS DEVELOPMENT CENTRE
This centre will provide much-needed space not only for the 52 young women of our children’s village in CDO, but also for 750 children from the community slum areas. The centre will be focused on counselling, rehabilitation and vocational training.
Many of these young girls have been through unimaginable horrors at the hands of sex-traffickers, kidnappers and domestic abusers.
Kids in need of psycho-social services such as counselling, trauma-/psychotherapy will be treated at the centre, children with all kinds of needs ranging from social, educational, medical and legal/paralegal needs will seek assistance at the centre.
The next step in helping these incredibly brave young women move on to happier futures.
In the centre workshops and conferences focused on child protection will be facilitated and volunteers and guests, serving the cause for the children will be staying there.
We will have a dedicated area for the already existing multipurpose cooperative including such services as coffee shop, grocery store, bakery and beauty parlour which will help to alleviate the reliance of foreign funds and support sustainability.
OPENING DAY! Our new home and safe house for the young girls of in and around the city landfill of Cagayan De Oro, The Philippines. The girls have been through unimaginable atrocities, kidnapping, human trafficking, sexual abuse, mental abuse and much more. Their stories are truly terrible and it breaks your heart that humans can treat their young in this way. But this centre is going to make a real difference, a happy, bright and above all safe place for these young women to move onto brighter futures with the help of professionals. This is our 2nd project here making a small village like community for these incredible children.
Great progress being made on the ground in Bulingtar on the construction of our new school wing. The previous building was deemed completely unsafe to use after the earthquake of 2015 and had to be destroyed. The new construction will be a bright and safe place for over 200 children to work and play. We broke ground in December 2018 and we are on track to open doors in August 2019.
On Sunday the 16th December we opened the doors to our brand new Early Child Development Centre in a remote mountain area of Sindalpochowk, Nepal. 5 hours drive north of Kathmandu this village was one of the worst impacted areas of the earthquake of 2015 with over 60 fatalities in such a small area.
Early Child Development Centres are absolutely vital in Nepal for ensuring kids get an early start on education making it far more likely they will go on to attend school rather than turning to the streets or farms for work at a very young age which often leads to child marriage, abduction and worse.
We broke ground in April this year and officially opened on Sunday the 16th of December. A bright, safe and happy place for 75 3-5 year old underprivileged children.
The children were delighted with their new centre, not least with the slide and swings, most of the kids had never seen a ladder before let alone a slide so a little training was required along with some very brave first attempts ending in jumbled up heaps - but lots of happy faces all round!
Ground Breaking Day!
On December the 13th 2018 we broke ground on a new school wing in a remote area of Bulingtar, Nepal. The school was seriously damaged in the earthquake of 2015 and has been overlooked by government and international aid agencies ever since.
The school was at risk of being closed down, the children were beginning to travel great distances to go to school elsewhere and the teachers were starting to leave due to the poor working conditions.
Due to open later this year the new building will provide safe education for over 200 underprivileged children.
