Anjali House

About us

The Sanskrit word “anjali” translates to “offerings” in English. Anjali House is a house of offerings for local children in need. Anjali House is an NGO founded in 2005 and based in Siem Reap that provides free education, basic care and family support to 120 underprivileged children.

Our Mission
At Anjali House we provide each child with free healthcare, food, clean drinking water and an education.

What we do
• Education
Subsidized Public Schooling: All Anjali House children are registered at local public schools. We provide them with mandatory school uniforms and all the necessary books, stationery and equipment for their studies. Anjali House also pays for remedial and extra classes for the children and any fees incurred from schooling. We donate school and teaching materials to the 2 schools which the children attend. This assists the schools, the teachers and reduces the need for teachers to charge students extra fees for additional classes and material. Our social worker monitors school attendance and performance. School support is vital to ensure Anjali House children have the opportunity to attend school regularly without any pressure to earn money.
English Program: Anjali House runs eight English classes every day and students are divided according to their level of competency. The English program is designed to equip our students with the skills to communicate and to obtain jobs where a foreign language is a requirement. This is led by our Khmer staff and supported by volunteers to assist with grammar and pronunciation. We believe it is essential to have Khmer teachers running our English program assisted by English speaking volunteers. This gives the children positive adult role models in their daily lives.
Complementary Education: In order to ensure that our students not only keep up with school work but advance in their studies, our fully qualified teachers provide complementary classes for the students in areas such as Math, Khmer, General Studies, E-learning, and Computers. They designed the curricula to support the individual needs of each student as well as ensure that they challenge and support the class as a whole.
Young Adult Program: The aim of the Young Adult Program is to educate and prepare these young adults to integrate successfully into their future jobs and communities. The students learn from a specially designed curriculum at Anjali House, which involves: English language skills; Computer skills; Life skills; Leadership skills; Career orientation classes; Scholarship matching for University.
• Basic Care
Food Program: Many of the health problems affecting Cambodian children are associated with poor diet and unclean drinking water. Every day we ensure the children receive two nutritious meals, consisting of vegetables, meat and rice. We also provide unlimited filtered water for the children to drink.
Personal Hygiene: Due to the lack of clean water and the constraints of poverty, prior to the establishment of Anjali House many of our children had never used soap nor brushed their teeth. Now everyday the children bathe in clean running water with soap and shampoo, brush their teeth and clean their clothes. We supplement these resources with on-going education about the importance of personal hygiene in preventing illness.
Healthcare: Anjali staff members receive basic health training at Angkor Hospital for Children through their education program. Anjali also utilizes the ‘home-care service’ of Angkor Hospital for Children, which provides twice-yearly health checks for all the children on site and maintains their medical history and provides all emergency and longer-term care. We also assist in family medical care, providing assistance in sourcing the correct and most cost effective or subsidized healthcare available. With emergency grants and loans for parents who have no savings or collateral, we have supported everything from care for broken limbs and motor injuries to cancer treatment and funeral expenses.
• Family Support
Social Services: Our social workers visit every family on a monthly basis, to discuss the children’s school progress, attendance and performance as well as family issues and developments. When families are experiencing difficulties through factors such as under-employment, health and family disputes, they assist in dispute resolution, employment issues and identifying subsidized health providers.
Family Support Program: We support families with finance as well as encouraging knowledge of family budgeting and assisting them in finding jobs and other vocational training, as well as setting up community saving schemes.

Mansi Pal is the Communications and Fundraising Manager of Anjali House.

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