Placements in Cambodia
Don Bosco Children’s Fund - Phnom Penh

The Don Bosco Children Fund (known also as DBCF), was opened in 1992 to attend children from disadvantage communities and orphans. It guarantees that poor children can attend school through a strict program of sponsors. The project has its main quarters in Phnom Penh and offices in Poipet, Battambang and Sihanoukville. As 2008, the DBCF has attended a population of more than 50 thousand children throughout Cambodia. Volunteers work in outreach – visiting local villages and addressing their immediate and longer term needs.

Website: www.donboscokhmer.com

Don Bosco Technical School - Phnom Penh

Don Bosco Technical School is regarded as the seat of the first printing house of Cambodia after the war and the best technical free education institution dedicated exclusively to young people from poor communities and rural areas. The school was opened in 1991 in order to attend poor young people and orphans. During the academic year 2008 - 2009 it enrolled 526 students for mechanic and welding, electricity, electronic, auto mechanics and printing. There are also female and male boarding houses for students coming from far provinces. Students come especially from the central provinces of Cambodia. Volunteers work as teachers in the school.

Website: www.donboscokhmer.com

Don Bosco Home for Children - Poipet
DBFC

Don Bosco Home is a center of the DBFC located in Poipet. The town is just at the border with Thailand The center is made by four programs: the children hostel, the literacy school, the food program and the technical school. The center is in a place very sensitive to the reality of human traffic, child workers, street children and child abuse. Most of the child boarders are children who were rescued by authorities from Thailand and repatriated into Cambodia. Volunteers work with the street children who are living in the center.  They provide them with general care and tuition.

Website: www.donboscokhmer.com