Introducing SMILe Project in Kampong Spue

Kampong Spue is the first community for the Cambodia Camkids SMILe project. We believe that this is a first for Cambodia. This is a collaboration between One-2-One CAMBODIA and Camkids.  Camkids and One-2-One make history together AGAIN !!!!

The area is about 1 1/2 hours from Phnom Penh and the drive there passes through beautiful scenery which belies the hardship of the people in this community.

The nearest Government health clinic is 25 KM away and with no public transport. The only  motor vehicle available belongs to the village chief. All the villagers we spoke to had never been out of their community. Phnom Penh is another world to them ...

KAD (Khmer association for development) has been working in this community, They brought the attention of the plight of the poor to our attention, (the lack of dental medical care, the geographical isolation). With funding from Camkids and One-2-One's manpower this project came into being.

3 prong approach - provision of desperately needed dental relief of pain with medical treatment and prevention measures as well as training of the village stakeholders so that they can better look after them selves.

This trip was to gauge community interest and to meet with the Cambodian stakeholders of this community i.e, the village chiefs and the local village health care volunteer as well as villagers. We explained to them what we plan to do and how we hope to involve them in the planning of service delivery.