http://www.friends-international.org/ and http://www.streetfriends.org/
This organisation works with street kids and their families - providing food, education (formal and non formal), health care, vocational training as well as more specific programmes such as substance abuse programmes.  They have established 2 training restaurants in Phnom Penh where street kids have the opportunity to learn cooking skills and become waiting staff.  These are great places for tourists to visit - not only to enjoy the food but to feel like they are contributing to something useful whilst having a holiday. 

http://angkorhospital.org/default.php
Dedicated and excellent staff.  This hospital provides much needed medical care to children in the north of the country.  They also collaborate very well with the government providing training and coaching to staff from other hospitals and health centres.

http://www.clacambodia.org/index.html
child rights, poverty alleviation NGO. The Director is a Khmer woman with a heart of gold.  She is supported by various small scale donors including people in Melbourne who have set up the website and support her with various things.  She does a good job trying to prevent trafficking, improving livelihoods etc in a very poor part of Cambodia

http://mekongblue.com/
Stung Treng Women’s Devt Centre - founded by a Khmer woman who is a real gem.  They work with poor women doing literacy, vocational training, HIV education.  They have a great place (on site weaving, sewing, kindergarten, silk worm farm) and people are welcome to visit if they are in Stung Treng

http://www.omprakash.org/nearykhmer.html
This international foundation works with a local NGO.  The NGO - Neary Khmer - (meaning Khmer women), works primarily with women and children under 5 years to improve nutrition and health.  However it is much more than this - livelihoods are a major focus to ensure people can escape the poverty cycle.

There are many more …

Lindsay Tuffin

IT WAS the mid 70s and word of a great horror was just beginning to trickle to the West.  I was working as editor of a magazine dealing with church and social issues, in London. The trickle of news became a torrent,  the ghastly reality of the Cambodian genocide under Pol Pot bare before the world. So, Cambodia has a prime spot in my consciousness. It’s higher for doctor,  Frances Daily, who lives in Phnom Penh.

I asked her for the names of just a few helper agencies she respects, to pass on to Tasmanian Times readers. Here’s what she sent …