Your tuk tuk driver for Angkor Wat and Siem Reap
Mr. Pit Savuth One of the best tuk tuk drivers For your visit to Siem Reap and Angkor Wat
Feel like making a difference?
It really is better to give than to receive.
There are many non-profits and NGOs operating in and around Siem Reap. I can tell you from my own experience and that of many other travelers, that the most satisfying, impressionable and lasting part of your Cambodian vacation could be visiting some projects or giving a hand in addition to only giving money. Here is an overview of my experience. If you want to discuss any aspect of this subject, just use the navigation to our 'Contact' page and send me a message.
Shinta Mani:
On my first trip in 2007, I spent two days with the folks from the Shinta Mani Hotel and Institute of Hospitality, a somewhat upscale 18-room boutique hotel and spa. The hotel boasts a scholarship-based hospitality school for disadvantaged young men and women. In addition, they organize all kinds of charitable community support projects for guests and non-guests.The hotel can arrange donations of things like water wells, small houses, school supplies for kids, sewing machines for starting a home business and breeding pigs.Having raised a modest sum of money amongst my friends, we went out to one of the villages they support to distribute the goods we had chosen to purchase. It was one of the most impressive and significant experiences I have ever had. You can read the travelogue I wrote back then about the day here My other experiences: Below are a number of other organizations I have visited and in some cases come to know quite well and support. You can check them out and soon I will write a bit about my experiences with each of them.
Journeys Within Our Community
Ponheary Ly Foundation
Sangkheum Center for Children
Unique experiences from The Villa Siem Reap (see 'Art for Life,' 'Treak Village Walk & Talk' and 'Day in a Life;' Here's another traveler's great first-person account of the 'Day in a Life' tour)
Cambodia Orphan Fund
