Support a Teacher

Support a teacher with their monthly pay. Our teachers are hard working and most are currently studying also for their degrees. Your regular contribution will help the school immensely!
 

To direct $110 per month for a teacher's salary simply  CLICK HERE to go to PayPal.
Regular donations

To make regular donations to the School and/or Orphanage, we have set up a facility with PayPal. This is expressed in US Dollars, and it enables you to set the amount you'd like to regularly donate.

 

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If this button doesn't work for you - then the one on the left (MAKE A DONATION) will! Thanks.

 

 
Budget under pressure for the next 12 months

The running expenses of the overall school, SOC and scholarship activities of the project are climbing. This is for three reasons.

  • First - the scope of the project has got wider, with more students in the care of the SOC, and an increasing number of students being sponsored through university.. We may have around 18 by year's end. At the SOC we have had several new students join the family this year.
  • Second - the quality of services is increasing. In 2005 years ago we thought opening a school was a big thing - but never dreamed how quickly we'd be offering computer teaching, or be offering university scholarships rather than, simply, languager education. Expectations and needs are increasing, and so are is our service delivery.
  • Third: inflation. Local costs are rising, and this includes employment costs but also fuel and electricity. We don't begrudge pay increases for staff and endeavour to pay fair, competitive salaries. For teachers we also cover sickness benefits (continued pay, plus medical expenses).

The monthly running costs, as of January 2012 are charted below - however since then we have added more children under the care of the SOC, and the Scholarship budget is soon to ramp up with the 2012 intake of scholars. Also the chart does not include capital costs - for example the building cost for the library or the SOC in 2008 or Student Centre which opened recently for older students located in town.
The Cambodian Rural Schools Trust

People in western nations who are wishing to fund projects want to be sure that their funds are being used effectively, and that there is accountability. For this reason a Trust was established by New Zealand supporters to provide an accountable channel for donations to Savong's School.

The Cambodian Rural Schools Trust is a legal entity with its own bank account, and was established with the generous legal advice of lawyer David Spencer and of Barrister Anthony Molloy QC.

Assurance. The main purpose for the Cambodian Rural Schools Trust is to forward a regular monthly money transfer to a bank account in Siem Reap established expressly for Savong's School. This bank account has two signatories (Svay Savong and Duncan Stuart) and from this bank account each month the teacher salaries are paid by automatic payment and the school Director, Savong, is able to withdraw $US300 for the running costs. Larger withdrawals require two signatures. This system provides donors with a high level of assurance that their gifting is being used expressly for the school - and associated orphanage - and the provision of education to rural students.

Tax effectiveness. New Zealand's laws that govern Charitable Organisations have been recently and significantly reviewed, and under the new regulations we are currently putting in submissions to register the Cambodian Rural Schools Trust as a charity so that donations can be made tax-effectively. At present there is no tax credit for donations to the Trust.
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