The Projects

Packed along the edge of the Mekong Delta in Phnom Penh are hundreds of shacks, providing shelter to families who struggle day-to-day to make a living and feed their children. The nearby rubbish tips – which scar the horizon, stretching for miles – are their only source of income, where they root through waste with toxic fumes to find things to sell. Many children die here – either from the fumes, polluted water surrounding them or the huge trucks who pay no mind to them.

Mission Direct and Pastor Sara’s Fellowship of Hope have built three villages, removing families from the dumps on the Delta. For a few hours each morning, you will be helping professional local builders to build a home for a vulnerable family, allowing Sara to call more people into a place of safety.

In the afternoons you will visit and help at a number of community and outreach projects in the area, for example: Hair-washing children in a nit clinic, helping a social enterprise for rescued former sex workers, and visiting the school previously built by Mission Direct for the children who used to work on the rubbish dumps.

NB. Team 1 includes the medical team - see here for more info.

Rest and Relaxation

As well as watching the sunrise over the ancient Angkor Wat Temple (a breath-taking sight!) you’ll also explore some of Cambodia’s solemn history with an optional visit to the Killing Fields and the notorious Tuol Sleng prison.