All projects supported by CW Asia Fund have some element involved in empowering children. As there are many projects and ways to empower children, we list here the most important categories where CW Asia Fund is involved. For more specific information please contact us or click the "read more" link at the bottom of every category.

CW Asia Fund Projects at a Glance:

Many children throughout SE Asia don't have the basic need of shelter. Many children are left homeless and sometimes orphaned due to the high level of HIV Aids and malaria in Cambodia, rural Thailand and Myanmar. Others are abandoned simply because their parents can't feed them.

The NGO Children of the Forest, as seen above, is assisted by CW Asia Fund located near the border of Thailand and Myanmar; an area deeply entrenched in poverty. Children of the Forest care for orphaned children, the majority from neighbouring Myanmar. A day school serves over 230 children, almost none who have previously attended school, and the shelter provides food, education, healthcare, vocational training and other basic needs that every child deserves.

CW Asia Fund believes strongly in working with communities. To this means, we look for and work with organizations that have a community approach to their programs. Organizations that look at all the elements of a problem within a community and attempt to address the issues through those elements while empowering all members of the community.

M'Lop Tapang is a perfect example of this community approach. The picture above is of three young girls in a playground drop-in shelter M'Lop Tapang built in the middle of a town slum in Sihanoukville, Cambodia. Here at the shelter M'Lop Tapang counselors meet with mothers and children, teaching them basic hygiene, child protection, primary education and providing medical attention.

Coming from the developed world healthcare and education are a given but for children in SE Asia this is not the case. Although in many SE Asian countries education is supposed to free; it is not. The price of pens, pencils and paper seem inexpensive but more then a small impoverished family can afford.

Healthcare is an essential service that most SE Asians can't afford. They travel many miles to an overcrowded hospital where more times than not the hospital lacks the required facilities or medicines. Often their arrival is too late to save the child.

Angkor Hospital for Children (AHC) is a pediatric hospital located in Siem Reap, Cambodia near the famous ruins of the ancient city of Angkor. AHC provides care to over 350 children daily in their outpatient department and since their opening in 1999 they have seen over 500,000 patients. AHC is an official teaching hospital and has outreach, inpatient, acute, emergency, surgical, low-acuity, dental and ophthalmologic departments. Above is a picture of AHC's home care team bringing crucial medicines to chronically ill children.