Clean water is a basic requirement to live.
We provide clean water to families with $12 water filters that last an entire year and educate communities about the benefits of using filtered water. We dig wells in villages and are experimenting with solar water purifying systems on the Tonle Sap lake. Basic medical and dental care is offered through several basic clinics and more extensive medical care is made available on an individual basis.
PCL with the support of our partners provides hundreds of Cambodian Families with water filters each year. One water filter will provide a family clean drinking water for an entire year.
Water Filters can be purchased for only $12 and will provide clean water for an entire family for at least one year and a well can be dug for a family for $150.
$12.
An entire family can almost eliminate disease and have clean, potable drinking water for over a year for the cost of 2 cases of bottled water at your local grocery store.
PCL has medical clinics in over eight locations throughout Cambodia. With the help of our partners we service over six hundred patients a month. PCL partners with the Cambodian Government to build medical clinics in all areas of Cambodia. Trips for Medical professionals are also a big part of the medical care PCL helps to provide for these areas. If you would like to travel on one of these trips, please email us or visit our travel page for more information. Medical groups can travel along with any team and provide medical services during their stay.
Dental Care
Dr. Ken Pilgrim, a dentist in the Chattanooga area and PCL board member, took on the project of raising $16,000 to purchase two much needed portable dental stations. These state of the art stations can be moved from location to location as dentists volunteer their services to the Cambodia area. Dr. Pilgrim traveled with us along with his two dental assistants, Tina Hixon and Kim Harrison, in January of 2007 and represented the first dental team to travel to Cambodia. Dr. Pilgrim plans to take two dental teams every year. If you are a dental professional and would like to travel on one of these teams, please contact our office for more details.
Clinics
The March 2007 team witnessed the ground breaking of a new medical clinic in Kok Thlok Leu. Joining in the ceremony was the Vice Governor of Cambodia & the N Cambodia Medical Director, Dr Dy Bun Chhem, including 600+ people from the community. According to Dr. Chhem, this location is one of the most needy areas of rural Cambodia.
The Cambodian government will staff the clinic and PCL teams will have use of the clinic for medical mission trips. The clinic will also serve as a feeding and humanitarian services center.
The government of Cambodia donated the land and PCL funded the $40,000 to construct the clinic.
Tonle Sap Outreach
The Tonle Sap is the largest lake in SE Asia and is home to millions of refugees. PCL owns and operated two barges on the Tonle Sap. These barges provide the refugees access to clean water, food, medical care and education.
