About Life and Hope Association (LHA)

Established in 2005 by the Buddhist monks at Wat Damnak, Siem Reap, LHA is a non government organisation focusing on breaking the cycle of poverty through providing education, social support and compassionate care to the communities most vulnerable young people and their families, bringing HOPE into LIFE through education.

Education remains elusive for many of Cambodia’s young people especially from farming communities where there are high levels of economic hardship and a lack of schools. The founder of LHA, Venerable Somnieng, understood that one way to help these young people, particularly young women, was to get them back into school and enable them to complete their high school education and help them on to university, so the PAGE programme was born.

We currently have 3 programmes:

  • PAGE Programme for Advancing Girls Education
  • Sewing Vocational Training Programme
  • Sustainable Communities Project
Vision: We envisage a fair and equitable society built on compassion and loving-kindness and
offering education for all.
Mission: Our mission is to improve the lives of those most in need by providing compassionate care
and educational opportunities, especially to poor and vulnerable children and to
disadvantaged young women.
Strategic Goal: Our strategic goal is to develop a successful model of change that offers society’s
most disadvantaged people a significantly improved LIFE and HOPE for a better future
and then to replicate it to bring a transformational change to society.
Values: We provide our services with a sense of compassion, respect, and loving-kindness.
We run our organisation with integrity, professionalism, and accountability.