PROJECT GOALS
To fund training programmes to help tourists and local projects work together to support the most vulnerable people in Cambodia.

Donations will provide the equipment and upgraded materials necessary to convert a large underused room at the ConCERT office into a permanent training centre.  This will enhance the work we already do, and will also enable ConCERT to employ and train a full-time local Cambodian trainer.

DONATION TARGET US$9,475 (£6,075 approx)
Establishing a permanent ConCERT training centre
4 folding tables - $200
Laptop - $700
Projector & Projector Screen - $900
Portable Air conditioner Unit & 3 floor fans -  $675
Catering Water Boiler, Water Cooler, Plastic cups - $300
Improved Information handouts, (3,000 of each): - $1,500

• ConCERT Leaflets
• “Responsible Volunteering”
• “Orphanages”
• “Effects of Poverty”
• “Human Trafficking & Child Sexual Abuse”
• “Other Ways to Help”

Sponsoring the training and one year’s salary of a Cambodian full-time trainer - $4,000
Project administration - $1,000

PROJECT DETAILS
Many visitors to developing countries experience poverty’s harsh realities at first hand, want to help, but are unsure how:

• Is the orphanage they discovered providing the appropriate support to disadvantaged children in its care, or are the children being exploited to make money for the founders, or worse?
• How should visitors respond to street children begging for food or money?
• What makes a successful volunteer placement, and what can go wrong if these requirements are not in place?

Just a few of the issues ConCERT staff deal with every day and we need to expand our training and advice activities to reach more people.

DELIVERY PARTNER
ConCERT (Connecting Communities, Environment & Responsible Tourism) www.concertcambodia.org is a non profit social enterprise based in Siem Reap, registered with the Cambodian Ministry of Interior and the provincial authority in Siem Reap.  Since 2008 ConCERT has been guiding visitors on how they can best support Cambodia’s most vulnerable people.

ConCERT staff already deliver training to tour guides, staff working in hotels and other tourism businesses, school and university groups, and individual visitors.  This covers responsible tourism in general, and how each can play their individual part in improving the lives of severely disadvantaged people, and also how to avoid actions that can make matters even worsefor the very people they wish to help.

The funds will enable ConCERT to greatly increase the amount and quality of the training we deliver, and will raise awareness of the dangers of inappropriate actions and responses to far more people.