We have updated the sponsor a child page. Please visit to see the breakdown of where your money goes when you sponsor a child at PIO.
The new system allows people to set up automatic payments every month to support a child. If you want to make a general donation please use the Donation button to the right. If you would like to subsribe, please visit our sponsor a child and click on the Subscribe button.
A big thank you everyone that supported PIO in 2007. We have grown a lot in 2007 and been able to help more children than ever. Your donations go to make sure that the education we provide goes not only to the children but to also help the parents.
We are currently fine tuning our sponsorship program and will provide more details on this in the near future. We are still accepting donations so if you have not yet done so, please make a small donation through paypal using the link in the top right corner. We are striving to use more than 80% of your donations to go directly to the children’s education and food.
Many Thanks,
Phymean
The community committee in Borei Santipheap II made a formal request to PIO to open a school at location which didn’t yet have a school for children to learn. PIO agreed to this request and opened a center with 4 classes and one library. PIO will select 400 children to attend this school. 5 teachers (3 of them girls) and one supervisor have been hired to run this school.
On Aug 21, 2007, under the honorary guest H.E. Mann Chhoeun, Deputy Governor of Municipal of Phnom Penh, PIO held the Official Opening Ceremony at Borei Santipheap II School & distribution of mosquito nets and study materials for 200 children and 300 women living in this community.
Borei Santipheap II is a newly developed area on the outskirts of the city that is the settlement area for many of the people who lived in the slum area (riverside) in the center of the city. Due to increasing land values in the central part of the city, the Government of Cambodia has built houses for them to live at Borei Santipheap II and claimed the former slum in the city for development.
Funding for this school has been allocated from donations provided from Michael Cockcroft of the InterContinental Hotels Group Asia Pacific (Singapore), private donations raised through fundraising activities, and sources within PIO. PIO currently has enough funding to operate this school until the end of 2007.
