Coffee for Change
Activity: The Global Child
Location: Phnom Penh and Siem Reap
Tip: Joe-to-Go is a great place to get your caffeine kick before sunrise at Angkor Wat.
Visit two small coffee houses with big ambitions to offer a better future to Cambodian street children through specialised education.
Street children with a new vocation
Street children with a new vocation
The experience: The Global Child is a non-profit organisation founded to build and operate specialty schools and safe-houses for gifted street-children in developing, often war-torn, countries around the world. It operates two small cafes in Cambodia, Café 151 in Phnom Penh and Joe-To-Go in Siem Reap, to help raise funds for the school.
Café 151 has a prime location on the Phnom Penh riverfront and sells a wide range of drinks and snacks, making it the ideal spot to watch the world go by.
The Global Child school is located above the café and visitors are encouraged to meet the staff and children and see the teaching in action. Joe-to-Go is a new coffee shop near the Old Market in Siem Reap, providing a selection of fine coffees from around the world. Local coffees from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam are well-represented, as well as exotic blends from further afield. Joe-to-Go, in Siem Reap, opens at the crack of dawn for those planning a sunrise visit to one of the temples. Drop by and pick up a double espresso to jolt you awake.
Helping kids escape this
Helping kids escape this
How it helps: The cafes raise money to fund the Global Child schools. At the Global Child schools, selected children – hungry for education, food, healthcare and a wholesome future – are nurtured to adopt a responsible role within their communities. In 2008, tourists will be able to visit a working organic farm and new school residence powered by wind, solar and alternative fuels. This will serve as a dynamic educational forum for new green technologies, and an outlet for power and water systems to help Cambodia’s impoverished farmers. This service is likely to be the only outpost of its type in the region and could become a blueprint for similar projects worldwide.
The Global Child is committed to helping the poor from the first day of operations. Students are selected from impoverished communities in Phnom Penh and are given an education. Global Child has the sole purpose of serving Cambodia’s poor in a humanitarian capacity.
Location and contact information
Café 151
151 Sisowath Quay, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Tel: (+855) [0] 12 372 438
E-mail: alan@theglobalchild.org
Web: www.theglobalchild.org
Open 0800-1900 daily
Joe-To-Go
Old Market, Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Tel: (+855) [0] 92 532 640
Open 0500-1500 daily
Map: Marker identifies Old Market, Siem Reap; not where Joe-to-Go is exactly …
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