
Who are our volunteers in Cambodia
After years of work in the field, years of dialogue and compromises, we have now some real experience.
Patrik Roux, NGO “AVEC” FOUNDER
Either at the shelter or through the countryside, thousands of children call him ”Papa”.
Before coming to Cambodia, “Papa” used to work with multi-handicapped people in Switzerland, helping them to find work. These activities confirmed his vocation to work for the most fragile people.
Patrik works with his wife Theavy Bun. Together they are able to cope with the most awkward situations and respond to the requests for intervention from the local authorities.

Patrik Roux loves above all to bring help and comfort to the poorest families, he is a fervent defender of education as a factor of change…

Theavy Bun during a rescue of four severely abused children in a village on the border with Thailand.

The whole team of volunteers of the NGO AVEC. There are the teachers, the substitute mothers, the teachers of the training centre, that’s not far from the 20 people who work for the good of abused children in Cambodia.

Three young student fashion designers and seamstresses who, for a year, learn free of charge a trade that will change the destiny of their lives in a lasting way.

When you are a poor rural child in Cambodia, having access to computers opens up new horizons. This action is part of our program to provide schooling and to fight against child abuse.

The replacement mothers who live and take care of the children in the shelter 24 hours a day are often abandoned women living in precarious conditions. Working at the shelter is a new start, a new chance given to these courageous women.
Testimony: What we will remember about this refuge is the joy and the laughter of the children: these children who have all come back from far away, who have all lived through very difficult things, have found their childhood here again?
Our children’s shelter in Cambodia
They had no tenderness, they would never play. Our shelter for children in Battambang opened on April 11 2009 ; it has become a reference as far as...
How to understand our action against child trafficking in Cambodia
These widows or abandoned women must find a way of survival and then live in conditions we could not endure for one single week… Patrik Roux founder...
Emergency intervention at the source of child trafficking and abuse in Cambodia
In those extreme cases we try to take these children into our shelter.The ngo has developed a very efficient network in order to be quick to react....
Preventing children trafficking in Cambodia
Prevention of child trafficking has been the main purpose of AVEC from its beginning. AVEC tries to make the rural population understand the...
Our children’s shelter in Cambodia
They had no tenderness, they would never play. Our shelter for children in Battambang opened on April 11 2009 ; it has become a reference as far as...
How to understand our action against child trafficking in Cambodia
These widows or abandoned women must find a way of survival and then live in conditions we could not endure for one single week… Patrik Roux founder...
Emergency intervention at the source of child trafficking and abuse in Cambodia
In those extreme cases we try to take these children into our shelter.The ngo has developed a very efficient network in order to be quick to react....
Preventing children trafficking in Cambodia
Prevention of child trafficking has been the main purpose of AVEC from its beginning. AVEC tries to make the rural population understand the...