Vision
FEDA strives to build a prosperous and peaceful society where opportunities for education, viable work, and healthy social relationships are accessible to all people without discrimination. FEDA focuses on working with young people to build positive and peaceful attitudes in their communities.
Mission
FEDA helps alleviate the poverty of the people of the Chher Teal, Kompong Seima, Ksach Poy, and Chrab Krasaing villages in Wat Kor Commune, Battambang District in Cambodia, by developing self-sustaining income generation projects, and by providing children with educational opportunities to enhance their participation as responsible citizens in their local, national and global communities. FEDA acts to ensure that all its activities are performed in an environment that protects the safety and well-being of the participants.
Philosophy
The best approach to development is to improve the community economy, starting with a micro industrial approach: people working together confidently to enhance their capacity, ability and technology.
Values
FEDA adheres to and promotes the following core values for its programs and participants: creativity, empathy, non-violence, non-alignment with government / political independence, and non-discrimination. In all its actions, FEDA strives for transparency, accountability, and sustainability.
Message from the Director
FEDA was founded by a few local committed community workers in 1994. At the beginning, with their own initiative and personal motivation, they voluntarily lived and worked with community people in the village to find way to improve quality of life of poor people in this rural community. We work to empower community people living in Ksach Poy, in the outskirts of Battambang. The organisational mission is to support and strengthen people who are committed to stay in the community, and those who are committed to help themselves and their community - a community that will become strong, inter-dependent and self-reliant.
Ksach Poy village situates along Sangker river and FEDA has begun its life in this village. According to my memories from my childhood, the villages in this area were very beautiful, not only the scenery but also with peaceful people. They were very considerate, always helping each other and offered a warm-hearted welcome to all. People in this area have since been trapped by the past of war, destruction and poverty. With the assistance of FEDA, community people, especially the young, strive to pick themselves back up.
Soth Plai Ngarm
Executive Director, FEDA