 Partners Micro credits for Mothers currently has four different partners in two countries. Each partner is well established in the local community and has an excellent track record of direct or indirect engagement with our target group. Please read on to find out more about each partner's approach and mission.  Cambodia  Ptea Teuk Dong - PTD Ptea Teuk Dong was founded in 1994 in Battambang, a large Cambodian town near the Thai border. During the last ten to twenty years, many returnees who once fled Cambodia from Pol Pot's regime and lived in Thai refugee camps stranded in Battambang.  These homeless and often big families are out on the streets and have no possessions and certainly no bright future ahead. PTD offers these families shelter and teaches them basic survival techniques reading, writing, planting rice and growing vegetables, cooking, personal hygiene, timber, sewing and weaving. Subsequently PTD takes care of relocation and re-integrating each family in the local community. PTD recently copied this approach to Poipet, another Cambodian town.
PTD's objective is to support Cambodian homeless families strive for independence, reintegrate these families in society and to help them regain their dignity. |  Starfish Based in Sihanoukville, southern Cambodia Starfish' goal is to support Cambodians that do not receive help from the government or existing aid organisations in many cases this means medical assistance. Cambodia's health system is in dreadful state. A broken leg that does not heal properly often leads to amputation simply because a majority of the population does not have access to medical care.  Starfish also helps families that carry the burden of taking care off a disabled family member in the form of education, housing, or a wheelchair. |  Sri Lanka  Bentota Buddhist Social Welfare Institution - BBSWI Bentota Buddhist Social Welfare Institution provides education to disadvantaged and neglected children that do not have access to regular schools. The Honorable Sangharatana founded BBSWI in 1975 in Bentota on Sri Lanka's west coast. He is a Buddhist monk and head of the Pitaramba temple complex in Bentota. The school is part of the temple complex and yearly caters for about 150 students.  The Honorable Sangharatana is highly trusted within the community and personally knows each family and every mother of the children schooling there. BBSWI aims to better the well-being of these needy families in the Bentota area. |  Janoday Sajeewana Kendraya - JSK Janoday Sajeewana Kendraya is a foundation established by Lerins Peiris, who has been very instrumental in Sri Lanka's peace process. One of JSK's widely praised projects is set to improve the situation of squatters living in very poor circumstances out in the swamps. Years of training, backing and other help provided by Janoday, has shown a significant change in the lives of these people.  Thanks to JSK continuous efforts, squatters no longer exist in Sri Lanka. Janoday's objective is to train people from different ethnic backgrounds and religions and learn them to bring about harmony and social development. | |