Our mission is to change the lives and improve the health of vulnerable children around the world by providing clean, safe, purified water to orphanages, street shelters, rescue homes, schools and children’s hospitals.

PROPOSED PROJECT: CAMBODIA
From 2010 – 2012, A Child’s Right (ACR) will install 60 - 80 water purification systems and safe water stations in orphanages, schools, street shelters and hospitals in Cambodia. With these installations, we will bring clean, safe drinking water to an estimated 50,000 - 65,000 children.

Water is the most essential life-sustaining requirement. It is a substance for which there is absolutely no substitute – not at any price. However, many developing countries lack the infrastructure and economic capacity to provide clean and safe drinking water to even their most defenseless citizens.
Infectious waterborne diseases such as diarrhea, dysentery, typhoid fever, cholera, giardiasis and gastroenteritis are endemic throughout Cambodia and are the leading cause of 74% of the nation’s deaths. These life-threatening diseases are most debilitating for susceptible populations – including the hundreds of thousands of children in Cambodia’s schools, shelters and orphanages.

Bacterial contamination of water sources by human and animal fecal matter constitutes the worst water quality problem in Cambodia, but toxic algae have also been detected in Phnom Penh's raw water and sedimentation tanks and in the Tonlé Sap River that can produce toxins that are then released into the drinking water supply.

Under the supervision of our experienced Country Director and supporting Khmer national staff, and through our international registration with the Cambodian Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, A Child’s Right will accomplish the following in Cambodia in 2010 – 2012: installations of more than 60 clean water systems designed to provide safe water to more than 50,000 children.

We are vigorous proponents of collective action to develop services which not only offer material solutions, but which also consider the growth and sustainability of our partners. The primary purpose of our purification systems is undeniably to deliver clean, safe drinking water to improve the health and development of at risk children, but our systems also free our partner organizations, hospitals and shelters from the crippling costs of bottled water purchases, thereby allowing these groups to redirect those resources to other vital programs.

We also recognize the importance of transparent and participatory operations and we regularly review and assess the quality and efficiency of our programs. We offer multi-tier support through our local and international offices, and maintain consistent correspondence with our sites for monitoring and reporting. Our Country Director and in country staff rigorously supervise post-installation water testing and system compliance.

ACR staff members have over a decade of first-hand experience to support that our systems provide exceptionally safe, clean and good-tasting drinking water for urban sites with severe water quality issues. We began working in Cambodia in 2007, and have thus far provided water purification systems benefiting a combined estimated total of 75,000 Cambodian children.

We have more than 60 additional sites already inspected- all with high concentrations of vulnerable children, unsafe water, and the ability to incorporate our systems seamlessly.