Your service will take place primarily hand-in-hand with SALT, an organization focused on the welfare of young Cambodian girls. SALT takes a holistic approach to their work, incorporating life skills, health education, TEFL (teaching English as a foreign language), enrollment in school, and vocational training. The group also uses "football" (soccer) as am means of empowerment, group bonding, support and fun.

The "Mighty Girls" currently use a field at the Battambang airport - a soccer field that is used widely in the community, but is filled with divets, lacks a shade structure, storage space, facilities. In lieu of laying artificial turf - a first request - we will work with the girls, their families and others to improve the field and to build the structures that they have requested of us, and have been hoping to build for many years now. We also may do some renovations and improvements to the home where some of the girls reside.

Projects will be a mix of construction and social service work with the Mighty Girls, as well as with children who are part of a program with another of our partners, Children's Action of Development (CAD). CAD creates and manages the expansion of libraries and schools in small communities where kids do not go to school because the cannot afford the fees and the time and cost of getting to more urbanized areas where most schools reside. We will help in the classrooms, get to know the kids, teach arts and crafts, play games, and help with basic English. We also may build a classroom addition if time permits!

Please bring a willingness to learn new skills and the desire to share your unique talents with all of us!