CAMBODIAN CHILDREN’S FUND

Youth Leadership Camps

The Cambodian Children’s Fund’s (CCF) Youth Leadership Camps serve the country’s most impoverished children living in Steung Meanchey, a former dumpsite in Phnom Penh. These camps help students discover their strengths, articulate their personal values and become role models of social change. Camping trips held at the end of 2021 were especially impactful, as the students had been in Covid-related lockdown and unable to leave the city for the previous six months. Inclusivity, diversity and equity is key in these camps and every child receives the same opportunity to study, grow and become tomorrow’s leaders. Cambodia’s young people face many challenges, with perhaps the most significant being lack of access to education and skills development and lack of opportunities to apply and develop what education they do possess to “real life.” CCF’s Youth Leadership Camps aim to prepare a generation of confident young people who can make a difference, unlocking the leadership potential of these vulnerable youth. Through the camps, students take part in team building, debate, group discussions and community projects and can apply leadership concepts as they interact with people outside their community and share what they have learned with peers and family members.