Overview

KCD stands for Khmer Community Development. As our name says, we want to improve the quality of life through contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals, especially through promoting ownership of tools and knowledge about building self-confidence; environmental, health and nutrition issues; organic agriculture; etc., but also through the promotion of inter-ethnic peace, as it is the precondition for an economic and social development in harmony. Grown out in 2002 from a University Student Club that mainly worked with youth from the outskirts of Phnom Penh, we became a registered NGO in 2005 and moved in 2006 to the new project area in the South of Kandal province, near the Vietnamese border.

Mission

Promote inter-ethnic peace, children’s and women’s rights, and development in respect of law and democracy. Strengthen the capacity of individuals to act as well for the own sake as for the sake of society. Promote principals of mutual respect in the interaction of all stakeholders in the community. Promote sustainable livelihood in a multi-ethnic society that respects the environment.

Vision

A peaceful developing multicultural society, in which the genuine needs and rights of all stakeholders, regardless their gender, age, race, religious belief, or social status, are recognised, respected, and satisfied, in the respect of environment.