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 CAMBODIA FAMILY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES

(CFDS)

 

I.                   Introduction

 

1.     Background: Cambodia Family Development Services was established in January 1993 as the indigenous successor of the UNHCR-funded Reintegration Advisory Program, which was implemented in Cambodia by Holt International Children’s Services from July 1992 through December 1993. Following Holt's withdrawal from Cambodia in December of 1993, CFDS continued as an independent and full-fledged local NGO. CFDS has expanded its activities to include not only a broad-based social services program focused on family development, but community development programs, which under a new initiative will include community-based resource management and environmental concerns. CFDS continues to support rehabilitation and development efforts in five provinces and provinces around the Tonle Sap Lake.

 

2.     Objectives:

·         To enable vulnerable families and their communities to reconstruct their lives through support for food security, income generation, and regeneration of social values through counseling and emergency support

·        To enhance the stability and sustainability in quality of their lives through the process of active participation and co-operation from family, community and related people organisation.

·        To bring about security of basic food needs for the people of the Mekong region. 

 

3.     Counterparts/Partners: Department of Social Affairs, Labor and  Veteran Affairs, Health and Rural Development, Education and Women's Affairs.

 

4.     Activities: the activities are focused on food security, fisheries, forestry, and diverse interest of villages, isolation, HRD in resource management. Local capacity building, livelihood, literacy, land allocation, advocacy, clean water, child labor and trafficking, returnee, refugees, flood and drought affected communities.  

5.     Location: Phnom Penh, Pursat, Battambang, Banteay Mean Chey, and Siem Reap Provinces.

 

 

II.                The Activities Related to Mekong

 

Fishery and forestry management and clean water, flood and drought affected communities.

 

 

III.             Contact Details

 

     - Contact Person            : Mr. John Phay, Country Director

     - Address                     :House # 4 Street 552, Sangkat Boeung Kak 1,

Khan Tuol Kork, Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia

     - Post                         : P.O. Box 603, Phnom Penh

     - Phone:                      : 023-3-62495

     - Mobile                       : 016-810-420

     - Email:                       : cfds@bigpond.com.kh