Training. Building. Investing.

We offer several business-training labs to give the poor a working chance: Common Grounds Café, Takam Integrated Farm, and Management Institute.

One of PCL’ s goals is to provide training and start-up funds for self-employment opportunities for those who otherwise have no hope of supporting themselves or their families. Opportunities for employment are most available in such fields as hotel management, woodworking, hairdressers, massage therapists, nail techs, mechanics, air conditioning repair, bicycle and motorcycle repair, and of course english as a second language & computer knowledge is always needed for jobs in the tourism industry. We also are developing an Integrated Farm to train locals how to support their families through farming.

Our Projects:

Common Grounds

Common Grounds Café, is a social enterprise, that hires men and women from a vulnerable background. A social enterprise business applies market-based strategies to achieve a philanthropic purpose. Our purpose is to apply any profit gained towards our various humanitartian projects here in Cambodia–whether it is digging wells or providing teaching supplies for our learning center or meeting a need at our children’s home–the profit is put to good use. Our goal: sustainability. At Common Grounds we inspire hope and empower potential in our employees. We provide our staff the training necessary to succeed in their jobs and to help them succeed in the future. We also make wonderful food!

Wood Carving Program

PCL started a wood-carving program to assist some of the landmine victims to become self-sufficient in a craft skill instead of begging on the streets. Each student is given a monthly stipend to stay in the program and off the street begging. A souvenir display shop has also been built at the land-mine center where the disabled can sell their carving and basket weaving products to visiting tourists.

Integrated Farm

PCL in partnership with the Lee University Business Department   is creating an Integrated-Farm. The farm includes pigs, chickens, and a fish pond, along with numerous fruit trees and soy plants. It is our hope that through this process we can teach locals to provide for not only themselves but their community as well.

Rice Bank

Our first micro-finance project was the institution of a Rice Bank in a rural village of Cambodia. Villagers borrowed rice for the planting season and paid it back to the bank with interest during harvest.

Fifty families benefitted from this program and 100% paid back their first loan. PCL is hoping to expand this program to include more families in the coming years.

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