YOU WILL MAKE AN INCREDIBLE DIFFERENCE IN ONE CHILD'S LIFE . . .
Your financial support will help us bring a child out of a life of poverty, hardship and neglect. Your gift contributes to essential shelter, healthcare, nutritious meals, education and clothing – all in a loving, caring environment.
As a sponsor, you can become a valuable mentor, pen-pal and friend, caring for and encouraging your sponsored child. Via email letters, academic reports, photos and visits, you can share in your child’s hopes, challenges, goals and achievements - and play a crucial role in your child's progress. You can also share personal stories about your own life, your family and your culture.
For children who have been orphaned or abandoned, this emotional sustenance is very precious, and can promote their recovery and growth.
. . . AND ONE SPECIAL CHILD WILL BECOME PART OF YOURS
When you become a sponsor of the children in one of our Airline Ambassador “adopted programs” you also become an active, informed member of the orphanage or program where your child is being sponsored.
Your email communication with your sponsored child will start immediately after you enroll, and you’ll receive a welcome pack with information and photos. Within the first year of sponsorship, you’ll also receive a personalized DVD video of your child.
Sponsoring a child is one of the most effective and rewarding ways in which individuals can support the Cambodian Children’s Fund and our other programs in India, Mexico, Colombia and Haiti. Your gift not only lets us continue our fundamental operations, but helps us invite even more children into a new world of love, learning and opportunity. We are arranging to visit each orphanage program at least two times a year, so we hope you will join us in visiting your child. Thank you for becoming a sponsor in supporting orphans and vulnerable children!
Our AAI team just returned from Cambodia, so this month we are featuring a few children needing sponsors at the Cambodian Children’s Foundation. Our team in June fell in love with these children, and you are invited to join us again in visiting them this October.
How to Pay & Sign Up
$100 per month covers the essentials of one child's care & education
The sponsorship program allows you to contribute to the real basic costs of caring for one child in our centers. Sponsorships help maintain essential programs, and to extend services to give more deserving children the chance to have a new life.
The CCF maintains less than 15% overhead, and makes every effort to minimize administrative costs, and to maximize results. Your $100 monthly contribution is applied to general expenses such as meals, clothing, basic medical care, and school fees and supplies
Pay securely online via our PayPal account. You may select your donation amount from the drop-down menu below and click "Give" to begin your sponsorship.
You will be directed to a secure, automatic payment using Visa, Mastercard or American Express.
You are welcome to pay via a one-time donation or by monthly donations.
It is also possible to pay via check in one-month, six-month or one-year installments. We do recommend that you set up an online bill pay or automatic check from your bank to Airline Ambassadors, but you may also send checks to:
Airline Ambassadors International
418 California Avenue Suite 459
Moss Beach, CA 94038 To help us record your payment promptly, please be sure to include your name and address on (or with) the check, and to indicate "New Sponsorship" in the memo line.
While the vast majority of our sponsors enjoy e-mailed correspondence with their sponsored children, and even visit, this participation is by no means a requirement of sponsorship. We also recognize that life can bring unexpected changes and challenges, and you are free to cancel your subscription or end your sponsorship at any time.
Here are a few children needing sponsors now:
Vichet, 9 years old
He was born and lives in Kompong Chhnang Province. There are 7 people in his family; his parents, two brothers, two sisters, and him. He is the second child in the family. All his siblings stay at home except his elder brother who lives at the pagoda because he is a monk.
To support the family, his parents always went fishing with a small boat and sometimes go to the forest to find fire wood to sell. They rent a small cottage. They earn very little each day and have to spend what they get on daily food and medicines because his third brother has stomach problems and fails to put on weight. His father also has occasional breathing problems because he has lung trouble.
Vichet never went to school because his family is so poor and there is no school in his village; the nearest is across the river in another village. He just stayed at home to look after his siblings when his parents went fishing. During his free time he played with neighbors kids. Because of poverty, his parents always have arguments. Sometimes his father is drunk and uses domestic violence. Vichet is very so stressed in this environment.
Vichet’s cousin is already at CCF. So his cousin’s mother took him to Phnom Penh to get an interview at CCF. Now Vichet’s life has changed - he lives in nice place with good food and a good environment. He starts to learn with kind teachers and has time to play with friends.
Pagna, 10 years old
He was born in Prey Veng province. Pagna's family moved to Steung Meanchey and they live there at this current time. He has a large family with 3 older brothers and 3 younger sisters.
In order to earn enough to feed the family, his father and 3 older brothers worked as garbage pickers, Pagna also helped to pick through the garbage to earn a little money. His mother stayed at home to look after the house and small children. The money they earned was not enough to feed such a large family.
Pagna used to learn in grade 1 but he had to quit so that he could help his family at the dump as well as do some chores at home and look after his younger sisters. In his free time, he would sit and draw and dream about the day when he would be able to return to school and continue with his studies.
One day his luck changed, when he was found by Scott. He passed the interview and went to live full time at CCF6, where he lives in good accommodation, eats 3 delicious meals a day and gets an education from both state school and CCF6. He has a lot of new friends both boys and girls and in their free time they laugh and play together .Every Wednesday and Saturday evening after class, Pagna goes home to spend time with his family.
He is happy to be living in CCF6 and for the opportunity he has. In his future, he would like to be a policeman
Srey Rath, 13 years old
She was born and raised in Kandal province. There are 4 children in her family and she is the 2nd daughter with a sister and 2 brothers. Her father died many years ago and her mother is a construction worker. In her home town, Srey Rath studied until grade 4, but she stopped her education because she had to help her grandma to earn extra income for her poor family by looking after a neighbor’s cows. After her father died, her mother contracted a serious illness, so her grandma sold their small farm to treat her mother.
Later, Srey Rath moved to her auntie’s house at Steung Meanchey which is a garbage dump site in Phnom Penh. She became a garbage picker along with her auntie and did not go to school. Srey Rath and her auntie earned money by picking plastics, cans, bottles, metals, and other recyclable things. However, this amount was too little to support her auntie’s large family who consist of ten members included Srey Rath. After she returned from the dump each day Srey Rath helped to do chores which always included taking care of her cousins, cooking rice, washing dishes, clothes, and wiping things around the house.
Fortunately, Scott visited Steung Meanchey and saw Srey Rath. He felt pity on her and invited her to take an interview at CCF2. As a result, Srey Rath was accepted to stay at CCF. She said “I was happy to stay in CCF2 because I could eat a better food than at my house. And my favorite subject is painting because I love colors so much”. She also said “my living situations have improved a lot since I moved to CCF”.
Sophat, 7 years old
He was born and lives in Domnak Thom of Steung Meanchey and his family has 5 members- his dad, himself, his 2 younger brothers and his grandma.
When his parents lived together they often argued and fought each other because his mother played cards and was often drunk. After his mother went off with another man, his dad became the family’s only support by working as a security guard. However, his father's earnings are not enough to feed the family because he has to pay for food, all the daily expenses and, especially, pay back debts. The debts come from many directions; from his mother's card playing and her illness when she was pregnant to the medical costs of his youngest brother who was also ill and hospitalized. All in all, his life was very difficult.
Before interviewing at CCF, Sophat and his second brother went to CCF’s Daycare Centre every day while his father took his youngest brother with him to his work place. In his free time, he liked playing and watching TV and sometimes looked after his siblings. His life became much better when he passed the interview for CCF. Now he learns and lives full time at CCF6. He gets healthy food and a comfortable place to stay. Sophat is also lucky to have many friends and is looked after by kind teachers.
Bun-Leap, 11 years old
Bun-Leap was born in Kandal province and lived at Domnak Thom in Steung Meanchey. His family has 7 in it; his parents and 5 children. His mother is now 8 months pregnant.
In order to support the family, he, his parents and 3 siblings worked to earn money as garbage collectors. However, their income was not enough to support the whole family, even though they worked very hard. As well as their hard life, the family was also faced with his drunken father’s domestic violence. He was always frightened when his father hits or fought with his mother and destroyed their kitchen. Bun-Leap sometimes stayed at home with his oldest brother or went and walked with his friends at the dump side.
He and his other siblings, apart from one of his older sisters, never attended school because of their poor situation. He really wanted to learn, for he would love to be a doctor. His hopes became a bit more possible when he met Scott and passed the interview at CCF6. In CCF6 he gets 3 healthy, good meals a day, sometimes ice cream, and a good environment. He is also able to study Khmer language at state school and English, painting and dancing at CCF6. Now he and his brother both enjoy playing with their many new friends and studying with kind teachers.
Read What Sponsors Have Said
No-one says it better than the sponsors themselves...
"Becoming a sponsor has changed my life. Far from being a simple donation a month and a 8x10 for my refrigerator, the CCF has fostered a deep and loving bond with my sponsored kids. Between emails, photos, report cards and visits to Cambodia, I feel so proud watching my "kids" flourish and grow. It has changed my life as much as it has changed theirs."
- Heather Connell, Los Angeles, sponsor of Lyda and Charam
