Cambodia

Cambodia is a country that has overcome many challenges. The people of Cambodia are extremely friendly and approach foreigners in a welcoming way. Despite that, you will also encounter poverty and despair. Cambodia is one of the poorest countries in the world due to the wars of the past century and has been left with a totally devastated infrastructure.
In many ways you will find Cambodians trying to make the best of it, very resourceful in offering their services to you as a guest of their beautiful country.

We have many guests struggling to find a way to handle the difference between their own (relative) wealth, coming from more privileged societies, and the poverty around them in Cambodia. You can always give some local currency to beggars who often miss a leg or hand due to landmines, or some pencils to street kids. But you might look for some more lasting support to this proud and beautiful people.

We can offer some suggestions to help you ease some of the poverty you see around you and give the people here something that will last long after you have returned to your country.

We suggest that you might do the following:
1. support a family with a new source of income,
m a pig plus food for the pig, for one year - 60 USD
2. support a child at school for a year - 150 USD
3. support a family with a hand water pump - 200 USD
4. support a family with a safe and lasting home - 1000 USD

At Golden Banana Boutique Hotel and B&B we use local support groups based in the community and monitored by international relief agencies, to make sure that your money is used as effective as possible. We guarantee that all proceeds will go directly to the persons and families in need. If you let us know in advance that you want to support a family or individual, we try to arrange it for you to see where your money will be spent.
 
If you are interested, ask us for more information about the projects and programs, we are happy to share that information with you. contact