Stories

Baby girl found living in squalor is now under CCF’s care as parents receive help Asleep in a cardboard box with a dirty, stained piece of fabric to cover her body and a tatty, old piece of clothing for a pillow, is how baby Rotha was found. Home for the four-month-old was a crude wooden…

The Chea family have been living in a tiny, one-room shack for almost three years. It’s cramped, dark and on the verge of falling down, no place for three children to grow up. This #GivingTuesday, help us to give the family the gift they need most – a new home Rising before the sun, Sok…

One of CCF’s star students, 13 year old Rachna, has been decorating her family’s walls with awards for over five years. It was only when she asked for her certificates to be framed that the extent of her achievements was revealed CCF recognises the hard work of every single student, and there is no shortage…

When Nouy Naphay finishes a day at school as a CCF student, her work is far from over. In the evening, the teenager can be found passing on her knowledge to peers and younger pupils in a makeshift classroom she has set up in her community Using a battered old whiteboard fixed to the side…

In the second of a two-part photo series, be transported into CCF’s Divine Community. Captured by CCF photographer, Scott Rotzoll, who shows what goes on in the community as day fades to night. To see part one, click here Part 2: The Afternoon/Evening As the day comes to an end, the Divine Community spreads out…

6 talented CCF students are off to Australia after winning a place to attend a Young Leaders Program at Trinity College in Melbourne The smile that spread across Kanha’s face said it all. All the hard work, effort and the nervous anticipation had paid off: she was going to Australia to visit the renowned Trinity…

This year, for the first time, youngsters in CCF’s residential care will spend the Pchum Ben holidays with a family at a caregivers’ home Little Sing, aged two, will be experiencing a proper home and life with a family for the first time this week. Sing and his baby sister, Kannitha, aged five months, will…

Everyday, girls face barriers to education caused by poverty and cultural norms. For International Day of the Girl, we talked to a family with three generations of women to see how access to education has improved When Granny Long Pov, 70, was a little girl, going to school was an unattainable dream. It was the…

Part 1: The Morning Nob Sameat has two children of her own but is a mother of seven. She, along with her own mother Samrith Samean, fosters five children in the Divine Community, one of CCF’s World Housing sites, next to the former landfill in Phnom Penh. In this photo story, she gives us a…

Mum Laura Pauley, 33, took her five-year-old daughter backpacking around Southeast Asia. Now she’s written a book about their adventures including a visit to CCF and we have exclusive excerpts Watching her previously shy daughter, Summer, growing in confidence as she interacted with some CCF students, Laura Pauley knew that everything had been worth it.…