Humanitarian Emergency Relief
WHEN IT'S LITERALLY A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH
The Smiling Gecko philosophy sees “guidance for self-help” clearly in the foreground. But in rural Cambodia there are always situations in which we also provide emergency aid. It is a must.
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The Corona crisis, for example, hit the population extremely hard. But the increasingly frequent droughts with the associated crop failures are also an essential problem. Because in Cambodia there is practically no state support in emergency situations and so the poorest of the poor are completely on their own. A fight that cannot be won.
We help the people in the area around the campus and in the slums of Phnom Penh. We regularly supply them with medical products and, above all, with the food they urgently need, many of which come directly from our campus. Unlike the small land holders, we have professional water pumps and can farm our land for a longer duration than the rest, even in difficult conditions. We are also able to distribute drinking water in large clay cisterns.
