New Project: ConCERT Training Center

Since the interest in ConCERT trainings have been increasing, ConCERT has recently decided to set up a full-time training center for travelling groups, tourism staff and organisations to teach them to work better together in supporting the most vulnerable people in Cambodia.

"Donations will provide the equipment and upgraded materials necessary to convert a large underused room at the ConCERT office into a permanent training centre.  This will enhance the work we already do, and will also enable ConCERT to employ and train a full-time local Cambodian trainer.

Many visitors to developing countries experience poverty’s harsh realities at first hand, want to help, but are unsure how:

• Is the orphanage they discovered providing the appropriate support to disadvantaged children in its care, or are the children being exploited to make money for the founders, or worse?

• How should visitors respond to street children begging for food or money?

• What makes a successful volunteer placement, and what can go wrong if these requirements are not in place?

Just a few of the issues ConCERT staff deal with every day and we need to expand our training and advice activities to reach more people.

ConCERT staff already deliver training to tour guides, staff working in hotels and other tourism businesses, school and university groups, and individual visitors.  This covers responsible tourism in general, and how each can play their individual part in improving the lives of severely disadvantaged people, and also how to avoid actions that can make matters even worsefor the very people they wish to help.

The funds will enable ConCERT to greatly increase the amount and quality of the training we deliver, and will raise awareness of the dangers of inappropriate actions and responses to far more people."

To set up the center ConCERT will need additional funds. We will support the fundraising here on betterplace with our main focus on the information handouts for which there'll be an even higher demand once the center is established.

Warm regards,

Meera