Empowering Cambodian Communities

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About

The corporation is organized exclusively for humanitarian, charitable, and educational purposes, including, for such purposes, to support the social and economic development projects to enhance lives of the Cambodian people and the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under 501©(3) of the internal Revenue Code, or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code.

History

CDF is derived from Cambodian’s Children Association, Inc. of Virginia (Sharon Duong) by merging with Women Alliance Foundation (Lar Mundstock) from Minnesota in June 2006.

Cambodian’s Children Association, Inc. was created in 1990 with support  from Jesuit Refugees USA (Father Frank Moan, SJ) in helping refugees at the Cambodian-Thai border to handle nine orphanage center.  We provided basic skills to people in the refugee camp and taught English language to them, before resettlement to the third country.

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The Cambodian Development Foundation (CDF) was created from the merge of Cambodian’s Children Association, Inc. (CCAI) and Women Alliance Foundation (WAF) of Minnesota in June 2006.

The Cambodian’s Children Association, Inc. was incepted on March 1990 by three person who were the original founder of this organization (Sharon Duong, Nancy Lee-Cate, Esq., Helen Walters(controller)) sponsored by Jesuit Refugees USA in helping the refugees orphanage center at the Cambodian-Thai border after the fall of Pol Pot regime and also the Vietnamese’s invasion Cambodia in January 7, 1997.

The survivals from the killing field were afraid to live on their own land fled the country to the border of Thailand where they received foods and protection from United Nation Border Relief Organization (UNBRO).  There, they processed the paperwork for resettlement to the third  country who were willing to accept them as refugees. Their Dream was to have a New Life, a New Horizon for their Future including their Family safety, and their Freedom.

Activities

The Cambodian Development Foundation:

  1. Open Khmer Classes to whom, who want to learn how to speak, read, and write Cambodian language;
  2. Support the poor students in Cambodia who would like to go for higher education;
  3. Peer pressure between parents and children who grew up in this country and couldn’t communicate with each other because of culture differences and language barriers;
  4. Referral of new-comers for a job placement;
  5. Translate all paper works from INS or IRS, and doctors information as needs;
  6. Organize fund-raising to support community in needs;
  7. Sponsorship to admitted to this country, such as family reunion, monks, and others.