Global Grant Programs

In addition to RCPP-initiated service projects

In addition to the following RCPP-managed projects, the club supports several Global Grants in such areas as teacher training, malaria research, latrines and wells, and sustainable community Development; The Global grant program supports large international activities with sustainable, measurable outcomes in Rotary’s areas of focus.

Grant sponsors form international partnerships that respond to real community needs. Global grants must be sustainable. This means the project must have plans for long-term success after the global grant funds have been spent.

– Have measurable goals
– Align with one of our areas of focus
– Respond to real community needs
– Actively involve Rotarians and community members
– Meet the eligibility requirements

RCPP’s currently active Global Grant projects:

  • Since August 2024

    Les Yeux du Mekong 3

    [GG2458845] RC Montpellier Etang de L’Or offered to partner with RCPP for the latest stage in a project to support the activities of the NGO Pour Les Yeux du Monde (France), which operates an eye hospital boat on the Mekong. We had hosted the previous global grant for this project. This stage involves the provision of replacement and additional eye equipment for the boat, helping to improve the medical facilities available to visiting eye doctors. RCPP visited the boat with International lead Jean-Marie LeLoup in March 2024.

  • Since July 2024

    Adult Dysphagia Management Training for Cambodian Healthcare Professionals (Years 2 and 3)

    [GG 2458817] RC San Francisco – Castro partners with RCPP for the follow-on global grant to the former dysphagia project (see below). It aims to train 36 to 45 Cambodian nurses, doctors, and physical therapists over a three-year period to manage dysphagia (swallowing impairment) in hospitals and clinics for adult patients. That global grant covers years 2 and 3 of the project.

  • Since June 2024

    Construction of Washroom Toilet (Sanitation) for Familes from Kok Beng Village

    [GG 2459003] RC Mooroopn is sponsoring the third in this series of washroom toilet projects near Siem Reap, this one in Kok Beng Village. The goal is to build 129 washroom toilets in an area where there is a critical need for sanitation facilities. As with the Tapour Village GG, RCPP participates in regular zoom meetings on this project.

  • Since March 2024

    Cambodia Washroom Toilets (Sanitation) – Tapour Village

    [GG2458349] This project aims to build 190 washroom toilets in Tapour Village (Siem Reap Province) as a follow-on to a first phase of the project in the village of Kok Beng. International sponsor is RC Chadstone/East Malvern.

  • Since December 2023

    Empowering Disadvantaged Women in Economic Improvement

    [GG 2455977] This project aims to improve incomes of small households who have a woman head in villages in Chhouk district in Kampot province. The project focuses on breeding, raising, and selling chickens, and building the capacity of women self-help groups. Local partner is the Cambodian Organization for Children and Development (COCD). International partner is RC Suwon-Nosong. A visiting Korean delegation from District 3750 joined RCPP members on a site visit on Feb. 29, 2024.

  • Since December 2023

    Women’s Action for Livelihood Development (WALD)

    [GG 2347603] This project aims to provide vulnerable women in two communes in Kampong Speu province with skills and resources to generate income and create sustainable livelihoods. Project focuses on chicken, pig and fish raising, as well as soap production. Local partner is Cambodian Women’s Crisis Center (CWCC). International club is Songtan-Mineulre (Korea). Application was approved on December 19, 2024, and implementation is underway.

  • Since August 2023

    Adult Dysphagia Management Training for Cambodian Healthcare Professionals

    [GG 2341328] This project, sponsored by RC San Francisco Castro, aims to train 36-45 Cambodian nurses, doctors, and physical therapists over a three-year period to manage dysphagia (swallowing impairment) in hospitals and clinics for adult patients. The project is being run at the University of Puthisastra in Phnom Penh. This project is likely to be followed by another two one-year projects.

Other project proposals currently in preparation:

  • Planning stage since January 2024

    Bringing Sustainable Drinkable Water Solutions to Underserved Communities in Cambodia

    The proposed project aims to provide sustainable and community-scale drinking water supply solutions to remote and underserved communities. Two communes, Anlong Run and Chrouy Sdau, in the Thma Koul district of Battambang Province were identified for the project due to their lack of connection to the national/provincial water supply network, making the project’s impact significant. Since January 2024, President Eric has been in discussions with District 1160 in Ireland, which has committed to taking a leadership role and covering most, if not all, of the project costs.

Examples of past Global Grant projects (completed):

  • Completed January 2024

    Ultrasonic Medical Equipment Support Project in Cambodia

    That project equipped a hospital with an ultrasound machine that can diagnose heart disease.

  • Completed December 2023

    The 3rd Free heart surgery project for children in Cambodia

    That project covered the costs of heart surgery for children.

  • Completed July 2023

    Enabling Rural Cambodian Women in Business

    That project helped improve incomes of small households who have a woman head in 5 villages in Veal Veng District in Pursat Province, Cambodia by breeding and raising chickens and selling them. That outcome was achieved by:

    • building the capacity of women Self Help Group members to support income generation development,
    • developing opportunities for women members of Self-Help Groups to increase production of chicken and subsequent incomes, and
    • enrolling 60 female head of household that comprise the 5 self-help groups in the program.

    The increased income benefited the 60 families i.e about 240 family members.

  • Completed May 2022

    Les Yeux du Mékong 2

    The clinic boat of the association Pour Les Yeux Du Monde has been providing treatment for eye diseases in Cambodia since 2007. They organize 8 to 10 missions per year, each lasting 10 days, with the help of volunteers. In 2018, the first global grant project helped supply medical and surgical equipment.

    This follow-up project focused on renovating the boat, enhancing its equipment, improving the asepsis of the operating room, overhauling the engine, and refurbishing the hull. Additionally, it provided instrument sterilization equipment, instruments for cataract operations, a stretcher bed for outpatient surgery, a bio-meter device for measuring implants, and a phako-emulsification device for cataract surgery. The beneficiaries of this action are Cambodian nationals of all ages living along the Mekong and Tonle Sap.