Together, we can
Build a world where all youth are safe
In Cambodia’s underserved communities, a child’s well-being is intimately tied to the strength of their family and the safety of their surroundings. At Sao Sary Foundation, we champion child protection and family support in Cambodia—believing that protecting one life means uplifting three: a child, their caregiver, and the village they call home. Through compassionate interventions and long-term support, we’re building futures shaped not by vulnerability, but by resilience, dignity, and possibility.
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Children Helped
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Villages Supported
Our Impact: Empowering Children, Families, and Communities
Through its Cambodia child protection nonprofit mission and focus on child protection and family support in Cambodia, the Sao Sary Foundation is transforming lives in Cambodia’s rural heartlands—where poverty, distance, and vulnerability often keep children from education, safety, and opportunity.
🎉 We are proud to announce the launch of the Build the School Cambodia project in Prekyang village. On March 20, 2026, we held the Groundbreaking Ceremony for a new five-classroom school that will serve more than 200 children. Thanks to the support of the Lions Club of Ampang and the Ministry of National Defense of Cambodia, this vision is becoming reality.
🎓 In 2024–2025, we welcomed 113 of the poorest children into our education program, providing bicycles, 339 uniforms, and schoolbags with full stationery kits—thanks to the generosity of Ark Electronics and Madam Zhang Wenxia. These resources protect children from exploitation by keeping them in school and strengthening family stability.
🏥 We equipped Ampov Prey Health Center with a renewable energy system, diagnostic equipment, and nutritional support, now serving 2,000+ patients monthly—a major step forward in rural healthcare access that reinforces our commitment to family well-being.
📱 With 14 iPhone 16 devices, we enhanced coordination with government partners, accelerating project delivery and strengthening institutional trust—key pillars in effective child protection and family support in Cambodia.
🌍 We published our 2024 Annual Report on Give.Asia to uphold transparency, build donor confidence, and invite global support for our Cambodia child protection nonprofit mission and broader efforts in child protection and family support in Cambodia.
Since 2006, SSF has impacted 100,000+ lives, sponsored 8,913 children, and served 23 villages—proving that strategic compassion can rewrite futures.
What We Do
Growing Hope Together: Our Shared Beginning
Our Proactive Approach: A Focus on the Children Sao Sary Foundation takes a proactive approach to child protection and family support in Cambodia by identifying high-risk children—particularly girls aged 10 or older, who face the highest risk of trafficking—and providing sustainable assistance to them and their families. SSF works at three interconnected levels: individual, family, and village. This holistic strategy strengthens family livelihoods and community infrastructure, creating a safer and more resilient environment that protects vulnerable children across Cambodia.
👶 Child: Empowering Cambodia’s Future
Our Direct Support to Children initiative is a cornerstone of our work in child protection and family support in Cambodia. It identifies and responds to cases of abandonment, abuse, trafficking, and neglect with urgency and compassion. We ensure each child enters a safe environment, gains access to education and healthcare, and is supported on a path to long-term stability—with community and family at the heart of recovery. This initiative embodies our commitment to restoring dignity and building resilient futures for Cambodia’s most vulnerable children.
👨👩👧 Family: Strengthening the Heart of Every Home
Our Direct Family Support program is a key pillar of child protection and family support in Cambodia, offering comprehensive assistance to families facing poverty, abuse, and displacement. Through monthly sponsorships, basic needs packages, income generation opportunities, and community reintegration, we empower families to rebuild their lives—rooted in respect, resilience, and long-term sustainability. This program strengthens the family unit to prevent child exploitation and foster environments where every child can thrive.
🏘️ Community: Building Resilient Villages
At Sao Sary Foundation, we believe in building lasting impact by investing in the people who know their needs best. Our Community Development program plays a vital role in advancing child protection and family support in Cambodia, as we partner with local villages to co-create solutions—health centers, clean water systems, safe housing, and educational infrastructure—that ensure dignity, safety, and opportunity for generations to come. By strengthening communities from within, we lay the groundwork for families to thrive and children to grow up protected, empowered, and full of potential.
About Us: Protecting Children. Supporting Families. Strengthening Communities.
Founded on the belief that every child deserves safety, every family deserves stability, and every community deserves opportunity, Sao Sary Foundation is a grassroots Cambodian organization advancing child protection and family support in Cambodia through holistic pathways out of vulnerability. We support children at risk, families in crisis, and communities striving for dignity—offering not just temporary relief, but long-term empowerment.
Our work begins where others often stop: with direct, urgent intervention for children facing abuse, abandonment, or trafficking. From there, we restore stability through family-centered support, providing basic needs, housing, healthcare, and economic opportunities. This integrated approach is the heart of our commitment to child protection and family support in Cambodia.
And we expand that impact through community development—investing in clean water, health centers, education, and local leadership.
We operate with transparency, cultural authenticity, and a deep respect for those we serve. Our sponsorship models are tailored, our programs are monitored for impact, and our stories—told through real faces and voices—build bridges between compassion and change.
This is not charity. This is a partnership for transformation.
“I had the pleasure of meeting Vichetr on my way through to Laos for an NGO I worked with in early 2010. I was working with SSF already as a grant writer and I felt it was the perfect opportunity for me to see first-hand the work of SSF. I was greatly impressed with the dedication of Vichetr, his family and the whole SSF team. Most impressive were the children under his tutelage. Vichetr and SSF set the benchmark for all my future work in the non-governmental sector and few if any organisations have shown the professionalism and care I have come to expect of Vichetr.”
Social Science Researcher
Our Partners
GIVE US A HAND
In the heart of Cambodia, where resilience quietly blooms, a helping hand can be the beginning of a new story. It’s more than aid—it’s the power to restore dignity, unlock opportunity, and remind families that their journey matters. Every gesture of support fuels child protection and family support in Cambodia, carrying the potential to return a child to school, help a caregiver rebuild a livelihood, and protect a vulnerable household from crisis.
This is not simply charity. It’s a shared movement—one where your support becomes the thread that weaves hope into daily life. Together, we build futures defined not by survival, but by possibility.