HSPCCO

Helper Students for the Poor Children of Cambodia Organisation

Aims of the Organisation

• Provide educational opportunities to local children at no cost to their families
   
• Provide students with practical skills training as well as personal and social guidance
   
• Student support in the form of sponsorships for school supplies, uniforms, and supplemental private education
   
• Provide foster care
   
• Free medical and dental services
   
• Act as a change agent by working to inform the local community

Subjects Taught

• English
  
• Khmer
   
• Agriculture (New Programme)
   
• Hygiene & Healthcare
   
• Human Rights
   
• Human Ethics
   
• Sewing (Currently suspended)

“I teach the students about Human Rights so they will understand the difference between right and wrong. My aim is when they leave school they will get a good profession and understand how important it is to be honest and caring about their country and the Cambodian people, so that the atrocities of our recent past do not repeat themselves.”

- Noeum Samuth, Founder of HSPCCO.

Visitors and Volunteers Welcome

We welcome everyone to come and visit our schools and to meet our children.

It is difficult to find local teachers that have the opportunity to work for little or no salary. Thus, we are in a constant need of volunteers to be able to offer education for the children. If you wish to teach English or have other qualifications that you want to share, please contact us.

We also greatly encourage the efforts of local Cambodians interesting in influencing the lives of the children.

Any donations in form of school equipment, clothes, food or funding is highly appreciated.

Contact information

Samuth (Director) 012 826307
luckyman_samuth@yahoo.com



Angkor Thom school:
Prea Ko Village
Sway Chek Commune
Siem Reap Province
Cambodia

Office and Puok District School:
Chambork He Village
Puok Commune, Puok District
Siem Reap Province, Cambodia
Tel: +855 (0)12 82 63 07

On the left, students and staff at our new Angkor Thom District School. We are extremely grateful to our friends from Holland and SSCR for their donations. We are proud of the opportunities that the newly donated building has made available to the community.

The Founder

Noeum Samuth (Born in Phnom Penh 7th of July 1959), also known as Luckyman, has an intriguing background. At the age of 15 (17th of April, 1975), the Khmer Rouge took power over Cambodia, and soon forced people living the cities, including his family, into villages in the countryside to conduct hard labour. Health conditions were harsh and the people suffered from fever, diarrhoea, malaria and malnutrition. The latter caused many people to starve to death.

One day in 1976, as Noeum was trying to find food for his family, the Khmer Rouge found out that Noeum’s father was a former Governor and Commander of the former army. Upon his return, his father, mother, sister and brother had been taken into the forest to be shot dead.

To escape the Khmer Rough and certain death, Noeum and 29 other members of the village fled towards Thailand. Only seven of them survived, the rest were killed by landmines. However, unlike the movie The Killing Fields, as soon as the seven, still alive, made it across the border, they where placed in Thai prisons. – Eight months later, after hearing their stories, The Red Cross helped them get released.

In 1979, Cambodia was invaded by Vietnam, and vast amounts of Cambodian refugees had to flee to Thailand (again). From 1977 to 1979 Noeum was trained by and worked for Red Cross at a refugee camp near the border. Continuing bombing of the refugee camp, resulted in many dead refugees, and in the end they had to flee the camp and move to another.

• 1980-86 Worked with health education in ARC Hospital in a refugee
  camp
   
• 1987-92 Worked in a blood donation program and a dental clinic
   
• 1992 Repatriated to Cambodia by the UN
   
• 1993 Worked for the UN in the 1993 election
   
• 1995-98 Worked for Human Rights for an international organisation
   
• 1998 Volunteered to work in a refugee camp in Thailand (Coup
  in Cambodia)
   
• 1999 Repatriated to Cambodia by UNHCR

Since then Noeum Samuth’s life work has been to help poor children orphaned by the Khmer Rouge. The organisation has been funded by himself, through offering private dental services to rich people, from charity work and private donations. He has taken no salaries.
 

The Angkor Thom School and Farm

The school is located in the countryside about 15 kilometres from Siem Reap. Road conditions may vary depending on seasonal weather conditions and it will take from 45 minutes to 1 hour to get there. The school can be difficult to find so, if you would like to visit this school, please contact us we will accompany you to the location. There are no telephones or electricity in this area.
 

With help from private donations we have initiated a farming project, the aim of which is to educate students and their parents, and promote new ways of sustainable farming, with focus on composting, crop rotation, aquaculture, breeding and farm economy. The farm will provide food and a main source of income for the organisation.

The Pouk District School

The Pouk District School is located next to Pouk market, approximately 17km from Siem Reap on Route 6. It is easy accessible as road conditions are good all year round.

On the right, children at the Puok District School learning basic English. The class is being taught by Sreyleak, one of the orphans living at the school