At the heart of Cambodia
Smiling. Learning. Growing up safely. These are self-evident realities that are not true for all children in Cambodia. Some grow up too fast; their hands work instead of playing. Some no longer know what it means “to be protected.” In the streets of Phnom Penh, sometimes in the circuits of trafficking, childhood is lost. It fades away like ink under the monsoon rain.
We refuse this inevitability. Since 2005, AVEC has been protecting Cambodian children with tenderness. We offer them a roof, meals, a school where dreams take shape, and training that opens up the future. We restore their dignity as children. We teach them that they have value, that they can dream big. Every child saved, every smile recovered, every future rebuilt – that is our daily victory against indifference.
Schooling of children in Cambodia
In just one year, we have transformed the future of 130 additional children! Daksosor school now welcomes 200 students, up from 70 previously. This tremendous success is only the beginning – together, let’s keep changing lives!
Who are we?
Since the founding of AVEC, Patrik Roux and his wife Theavy Bun have dedicated themselves body and soul to their noble mission: to protect and offer a bright future to the most vulnerable Cambodian children. Every day, they positively change their lives!
Areas of intervention of the NGO AVEC
Specialized in the protection of vulnerable children in Cambodia, NGO AVEC actively works against illiteracy and to transform mindsets through four concrete areas of intervention that restore hope and build a dignified future.
Our action in Cambodia
Child aid in figures 2025
Number of children protected and living in the shelter
Number of children in our training centre
Number of Children Sponsored in School
Number of children in our kindergarten
Girls trained as seamstresses
Emergency intervention at the source of child trafficking and abuse in Cambodia
Some children live in dramatic situations that do not allow them to develop normally, either psychologically or physically. The child is exploited, does not have enough to eat or is physically and psychologically abused. In these extreme cases, we welcome, if possible, these children in our shelter. To do so, we work hand in hand with the local authorities so that the process is carried out within a strictly legal framework.
Understanding our work against child abuse in Cambodia
The recent mechanization of agriculture has eliminated many jobs for people in Cambodia’s rural areas; with no more land or forests, men have left to work in the cities, especially in Thailand.
Women are left alone with their children and survive on the money their spouses bring them. Here, as polygamy is relatively common, the husband sometimes re-founds a home with a young Khmer woman he met in Thailand.
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Protection of children
Our refuge is a place full of smiles, beauty and joy, with trees and flowers. This harmony could not be perfect without Theavy Bun, the director of the refuge.
School sponsorship
Schooling for vulnerable children in Cambodia. We organize bimonthly school days in the public schools we work with.
education and training centre
Our training centre in Cambodia is a fantastic place, full of dynamism where no less than 400 children come to study every day.
Intervention at the source of child trafficking
In order to be sufficiently reactive, AVEC has developed an extremely efficient network in Cambodia. It allows to quickly locate vulnerable children and to take care of them.
