BSDA is a community-based organization rooted in Buddhist principles, working to uplift vulnerable populations through compassion, development, and empowerment.
Donate Now BSDA was founded in 2005. Today, it has more than 75 staffs, 100 community volunteers and over 100 000 beneficiaries in five provinces (1.Kampong Cham, 2.Tbong Khmom, 3.Kampong Chhnang, 4.Pursat, 5.Koh Kong).
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BSDA is a Cambodian run NGO, established in 2005 in response to criticism from the villagers around the Wat Nokor Bachey temple west of Kampong Cham City. The community felt that the monks would preach altruism in theory but hardly ever practice it. Deeply hurt, the monks founded the organization, financing it privately throughout the first three years until their work was noticed and international donors started to provide funding. BSDA’s programs cover a large scope, including education and vocational training for Orphans and Vulnerable Children, Community and democracy development and work with Drug users and the HIV/Aids infected. Although being founded by monks and inspired by Buddhist philosophy, BSDA maintains religious neutrality and strives to better the dialogue between religious groups in Cambodia, employing Buddhists, Christians and Muslims alike. All projects have the secondary aim of teaching good ethics to the participants and encouraging them to contribute as well, creating a peer support system in which ex-beneficiaries help those in their former situation.
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BSDA is a community-based organization founded on the Buddhist principles of Metta to empower vulnerable people and to promote compassionate engagement in Social and Economic Development to contribute to the eradication of avoidable suffering.
BSDA envisions a society where people are empowered to live independently and have livelihood security.
BSDA’s mission is to empower and enhance the quality of life of vulnerable people, especially women, children and youth, through education, vocational training, social enterprise, good governance livelihood and innovation programs, in partnership with others
2021 - 2025
The direct beneficiaries of the program are street and vulnerable children, students, youth, young people, people with disabilities, the poor, and the staff (officers) from three supply sides actors, including commune administration, primary schools, and health centers.
Through our programs, in particular vocational training and education, we work with children and youth (aged between 15 – 24 years). Not only do youth comprise the greatest proportion of the local population, but they are also often under-provided for by the state and the most in need of support which BSDA provides.
In line with our values to support those most in need, BSDA particularly works with children and youth facing dire poverty and difficult family circumstances in its target areas. Working with youth is also one way in which we hope to achieve sustainable change through our programs, and, through supporting children and young people, we hope to create a better