Soeun Children Center (SCC)

SCC is an orphanage located in the outskirts of Phnom Penh, No. 199 Chres village, Phnom Penh Thmei commune, Russei Keo district, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. We offer shelter, food, clothing, health care, and education to children left behind through poverty and disease and in need of immediate help

We are currently housing 42 children at this orphanage, and have 2 volunteers from England, teaching them English with 5 permanent staff providing them care. We are still trying to complete the rebuilding the boys and the girls dormitories, and are attempting to gather funds to rebuild the kitchen and class room area.

All children are attending public school for main education. Courses offer in the center, such as English classes and computer classes are only additional education.

As you can see from the website, Soeun Children Center (SCC) is originally built from bamboo and grass roofs that the center cannot withstand the weather more than 12 months, before it has to be rebuilt. In 2006, we started to build the center from bridges.

This is the original Girls’ Dormitory. It is 7m by 12m, built with bamboo and grass roofs. But this building now is already replaced by the new cement building.

This is The original Boys’ Dormitory. It is 7m by 12m, built with bamboo and grass roofs. The boy dormitory is very old and needs to be repaired. All the boys are sleeping in the bunk beds with mosquito nets. When it rains they can’t sleep because the roof  leak

This is the kitchen. It is 5.5m by 14m, built with bamboo and grass roof. Now it is in a very bad shape. The roof is ruined and leaking rain water. We need to rebuild this kitchen soon as possible because when it rains the children don’t have place to eat. We would like to ask for your kind support to help us to rebuild this kitchen.

This is the school for the English training classes.
This school is 5.5m by 12m. It is like the kitchen, built from bamboo and grass roof, which is now also in bad shape. The roof is broken and leaking rain. The children cannot attend English class whenever it rains. After it rains hard, the ground is flooded and muddy for at least a few days before it is dry enough for the English classes to resume.. We would like to ask for your support to rebuild this classroom for the children.

In june 2006, we built a girls dormitory. The first wing sponsored was by Mr. Jeff Parry and family.  the second wing was sponsored by Mr. Bo Pheng with his team. the first floor of the third wing was sponsored by Mrs. Pen Jenny and Mrs. Pov Bon Ratha, and the second floor sponsored by generous people in San Bernardino, California. Now the girls don’t have to worry about sleeping in the rain anymore.