Our Programs

LHA currently runs six projects:

  • Hotel de la Paix/LHA Sewing School

    The Sewing Training Centre (STC) gives young women from poor families the chance to improve their future prospects by learning sewing and other basic life/work skills. Disadvantaged young women are taught sewing, English and basic life skills, to prepare them for brighter futures. Their attendance is made possible by the provision of food and accommodation. At the end of the course, students are given sewing machines and a materials starter pack, so that they can use their new skills to earn a living well into the future.

  • Program Advancing Girls' Education

    PAGE combats the hardship and discrimination faced by many young girls in Cambodia by giving the most disadvantaged girls in the region everything they need to reach the highest standards of education. It is a complete educational support system, providing room and board to those needing it, educational supplies, and financial support and extra tuition.

  • Angkor Thom Junior High School

    LHA's Junior High School (JHS) project aims to meet the urgent needs of the rural Angkor Thom community by encouraging and improving children's education beyond the primary level. The school is registered as a government school, however LHA assists the school to function beyond this capacity. Lunch is provided daily to give students extra motivation to attend classes within and beyond school hours. LHA also provides all the accommodation and food needs of certain students suffering hardship.

  • Children's Development Village

    Children's Development Village (CDV) is a home for the most poor and disadvantaged Cambodian children in the region. 
    CDV provides forty-three of the most vulnerable children (including orphans) in Peak Sneng Commune, Angkor Thom District, with the basic needs of housing, food, clothing, healthcare, education and a loving secure environment.

  • Foreign Language School

    LHA's Foreign Language School opens the door to the poorer sectors of the community by providing them with the opportunity of gaining the valuable skill of learning a foreign language. Poor children are given free classes in English. These skills empower disadvantaged and vulnerable people to find good work in this burgeoning tourist city. The hope here is that the very poor can receive education without compromising their families' food budgets.

  • Food for Education

    Food for Education (FFE) operates in five villages around Siem Reap. 160 poor families are supplied with rice throughout the year, and on occasion other ingredients such as tins of sardines, bottles of soya sauce and bags of salt. In return the families agree to send their children to their local school. LHA also operates programs for school sponsorship, medical care, health education, income generating activities and home building in these target areas.