Prayou Vong pagoda was built before Pol Pot regime. It is a very old pagoda with few monks. After a Paris peace agreement in 1993 there were lots of people migrated from various provinces around the country came to seek for job opportunity. However they just could find their accommodation in the pagoda to stay in their own cottage around the pagoda. in 1995 the people was threatened to evict by the monk. USG (urban sector group) a local NGO has organized the people there as a community to advocate with the government for their housing right. Because this community looks not a lucrative area, the government then allowed the people kept living without any disturbance until nowadays. 
There are about 200 families are living in the community. Because of their parents are too poor to send them to English class and support their daily living, some children have forced themselves to go on street to do some business by their own, such as: shoes polish, selling books with carrying a small basket, beggar and etc. Cooperated with USG, and a part of community development, Khmer Volunteer has set up an English class in the pagoda to provide lessons to the children who are not affordable to the private school in the community so that the children can be happy to join the class.
However, it is not enough to help! If their daily food is not enough, every children has to go on street to earn more moeny to survive themselves and this situation force them drop the class or come to the class not regularly. The best way to help them is to provide them some parts of help such 50 kilograms of rice (costs 20USD) and 22USD for their food per month. We can help every children for three years period and hope within this three-years opportunity they will be able to speak English and can earn money easily than they were young. Also, we could help to ease their families burden as well.
Since the last ten years, rapid growth has taken place in and around Phnom Penh, the capital
city of Cambodia and the center of its nascent but rapidly expanding economy. This city
suffered neglect during the two decades of civil war and continues to grapple with a large
number of urban problems such as vercrowding, poor infrastructure, and weak institutions.
In the last two decades, Phnom Penh has seen unprecedented in-migration of the poor with no
means of livelihood in the rural areas. The number of squatters is estimated to be nearly 20 per
cent of the city’s population of 1.1 million. The urban poor are a growing underclass
composed of cyclo-drivers, garbage pickers, street children, and sex workers.
To improve their quality of life and provide opportunity to the urban poor families at dumpsite, Khmer Volunteer has initiated its own ideas to mobilize the people both inside and outside the country to raise fund for helps. So far we have 23 children get our sponsorship in term of daily schooling fee and 50 kilograms of rice per month. With this amount of helps, we do hope the children will make their lifes change for the brilliant future and will not be the same to their parents' living condition. With this money they have been sent to public school as other children in the country.
Not only the project Pagoda and Dumpsite children that Khmer Volunteer Program involves with, but there are at least three other orphanages get our monthly support from the program thought volunteering work. However, Khmer Volunteer wishes to expand its projects so that it will be able to help more people and children within Cambodia, Khmer Volunteer has a very limited resource if there is no any help from other hearted people outside the country.
The population of Phnom Penh is expanding with an annual growth of 8%, caused by migration and natural growth, 30% of them are living in the urban poor community due to this growth and the development of the city. The growing is underclass and composed of cyclo-drivers, garbage pickers, street children, and sex workers. In recent years several urban poor communities have faced human made disaster which was called forced eviction. The insufficient livelihood they are living in causes a lot of diseases and negative effects on the lives of the urban poor.