About Us
About UsLife and Hope Association was established in May 15, 2005 by monks in Wat Damnak and friends. It has strongly committed to breaking the cycle of poverty by providing Compassionate Care and Educational Opportunities to vulnerable children and at risk young women. We believe in Buddha’s teaching that “All sufferings are rooted in ignorance.” If we want to end the suffering we have to break the cycle of ignorance. LHA is committed to implementing the Buddha’s teaching in real life in a process that is also transparent and accountable. The monk at Wat Damnak views the work of LHA as the practical implementation of the Dharma in a manner that proposes gender equity and social justice by improving the lives of disadvantaged people.
Mission:
Our mission is to
improve the quality of lives of those most in need by providing compassionate
care and education opportunities to poor and vulnerable children and to
disadvantaged young women.
Strategy Goal:
Our goal is to
develop a successful model of change through the Buddhist Wats in Cambodia that
offers society’s most disadvantaged people a significantly improved LIFE AND
HOPE for a better future, and then to replicate this model in other Wats to
bring a transformational change to society.
Projects:
11. Sustainable
Community Project-(SCP): The monk of LHA enter into a social contract with poor
families with children, where LHA provides basic support to the poor families
in exchange to their promise to send their children to school instead of using
them as source of income. In addition,
LHA provides school uniforms and supplies. LHA also provides micro loan with
low interest to improve the future economic wellbeing of families.
22. Foreign Language School-(FLS) offers English
classes at low or no cost to enable young people, often from country side, the
chance at better job opportunities.
33. Children Development Village-(CDV)
provides confortable caring and smiling home with access to a good education
for orphans and vulnerable children.
44. Park Hyatt Siem
Reap & LHA Sewing School-(STS) provides vocational training to
disadvantages young women to improve their quality of life, reduce the
discrimination, and empower their futures.
55. Program
Advancing Girls Education-(PAGE) provides secure living and educational
opportunities to the girls who come from remote rural areas without access to
high school. These young women are afforded the chance for a real education and
the ability to determine their own futures.
66. Buddhism in
Social Program-(BSP) aims to translate the Buddha’s teaching (Dharma) to the
daily life of families, communities, and Cambodian society by empowering the
ability of monks and Wats is lives of social service. BSP provide scholarship
to young monks, have monks build peace house for disadvantaged families,
conduct leadership training for Wat leaders, broadcasts as educational radio
show, and provide emergency relief programs.
Life and Hope Association provides a
model of how to translate Buddha’s teaching into service to the Cambodian
Community to promote the quality of life for underprivileged children and young
women.
LHA is like the platform of the communication channel between Cambodian People especially, Cambodian Buddhist monks to the outside world to join hand in hand to prove the charitable and humanitarian works to serve the disadvantaged people around the Cambodian Society to be more comfortable and well access education and also to promote the morality that is the most important tool for creating peace and happiness in the competitive world.
We all young but we really want to do something good for our communities and people in the name of human being as a part of the communities and the world. We hope can do more and more good works by support from the both sides in and out of Cambodia and we are very pleased to welcome all kind and generous contributions.
