Program Staff
Savenh Eoung - Social Worker
SavenhSavenh has a long and close relationship with the children at CCT- monitoring their progress and providing basic counselling and emotional support. Savenh works closely with Pon Jedtha, CCT's Program Staff, schools, authorities and other NGOs to build healthy community relationships. Savenh has been part of CCT since it was founded in 2007. Each month, Savenh meets with representatives of other NGOs to discuss the wider climate of social development in Battambang and Cambodia.
Savenh is responsible for updating each child and family's case files and documentation. She meets with children and families regularly to discuss any problems which may arise and helps facilitate solutions. Savenh also accompanies the children to the hospital or clinic when any serious health concerns arise. She is responsible for managing the children's daily schedules and long term future plans, such as vocational training or further education.
As Savenh has known the CCT children for so long - she is able to take a firm, loving, stable role in their lives and has the advantage of knowing each of them very well. This makes Savenh a highly trusted support figure for our children.
Kan Pech- Community Centre Manager
KanKan has been CCT's Community Centre Manager since 2009. He works closely with the Street Kids project, tutoring and mentoring the children. He teaches in English and Khmer literacy classes as well as helping to develop alternative means of making an income, other than begging, stealing and picking up rubbish. He is a very skilled motivational speaker and helps the children build their self esteem and hopes for a positive future.
Kan monitors the health of the street children and assists with medical help where it is needed. He gets to know all participants in the community centre personally and meets with their families, with the aim of finding out the root of their problems so that CCT can work towards making a successful intervention in their lives. Kan assists with weekly swimming lessons for the street children and is showing great strength as a swimming teacher.
As well as this, Kan manages the CCT Shop - monitoring sales records and stock inventory. He ensures that the young trainees working in the shop complete all their daily tasks and tutors them in sales skills, customer service and book-keeping.
Noit Sophea - Cook
NoitNoit provides the kids and staff on duty at the CCT Children's Home with three nutritious meals a day, incorporating rice, vegetables, meat, fish and fruit.
She also caters for any holidays where special dishes are required. Noit involves the CCT children in food preparation - teaching them how to prepare traditional dishes.
Rouet Hul & Vi Savourn - CCT House Parents
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Rouet and Vi have been part of the CCT team since 2009 - they work together to provide the children at CCT House with a loving, stable family unit. They both live at the house 24 hours a day, five days a week with alternating days off – and are relieved by CCT’s social worker Savenh.
Vi and Rouet take care of the children’s daily care routines – ensuring their personal hygiene, nutritional and medical needs are taken care of. As the House Parents they are responsible for overseeing the cleanliness of CCT House, ensuring the older children follow their housework roster – and that the little children are helped with jobs such as making their beds.
Vi and Reuot are warm, gentle and energetic people; always there to support the children when they have problems, drive them to various activities, play with them in spare time, help with homework and make crafts on rainy Sunday afternoons. Reout takes special care to help the children with their laundry – she always has one eye on the afternoon clouds and knows just when to send the troops running to bring it in! Vi is vigilant in ensuring that the children take their daily medications at the correct time.
Rouet is also a self-appointment mother to everybody who steps foot in CCT House -even fully-grown adults will seldom visit without getting their shirts tucked in, their hair tidied and a big hug from her.
Kim Soch & Nhel Rous - Transition House Parents
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Kim and Nhel supervise the young women living at the Teen Transition Girl's Home. They are also full-time caregivers to little Jake, who requires a special level of care due to his delayed development. They help to create a safe and warm environment as well as offering advice and direction when required. They have been working for CCT since 2009.
Kim works with the girls to prepare their daily meals and follow their housework roster- ensuring that they take a high level of responsibility for themselves in order to develop independence. She is also responsible for motivating them to do homework and encouraging them to make the most of school. Kim is always there to talk to the girls about boy problems, and share gossip and jokes - these are major conversation topics in a house full of teenage girls!
Kim's husband Nhel is a calm, always-smiling man who is a stable and positive male role model for our teenage girls. He can often be seen doing yard work and maintenance, driving the girls to school or training, or playing with Jake. He is very skilled in repair - and recently managed to fix our new electric piano after a electrical surge was thought to have ruined it.
Meah & Roan Pat - House Parents
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Meah and Roan are the House Parents at CCT's Teen Transition Boys Home. They live full-time at the Boys Home, along with their two daughters Phara and Phavy.
Meah, who used to be a policeman, is a polite and hardworking man who is highly respected by the teenage boys. He provides firm boundaries and moral guidance and is a great a role model and playmate for the boys. He takes care of maintenance tasks on the property and will always include the boys in his work and teach them new skills. Together they maintain their big vege garden, developing valuable skills while providing lots of fresh veges and herbs for their daily meals.
Meah's wife Roan is very warm and kind and makes the house feel like a home and all the boys very welcome. She is also a fantastic cook who teaches the boys about growing vegetables and encourages them to help prepare their own meals. As the Boy's Transition house is also used for short term accommodation for people in crisis - Roan is the ideal person for making people feel comfortable, safe and looked after. She includes the boys in food preparation tasks and housework - skills they will hopefully remember when they're grown and married.
Gontia - Foster Home House Mother
GontiaGontia is full time House Mother to the six Dao children - Nett, La, Loi, Somnung, Boh and Jalyah. She is responsible for their daily care routines- ensuring their personal hygiene, nutrition and school attendance is well maintained. She aways makes sure the children have plenty of fruit and helps them take care of the chickens and ducks they are raising together in their back yard.
Gontia has been working for CCT since 2010 and is a warm woman with a big laugh - she is always ready with a big cuddle or to join in a game with the children. She tried on Nett's fairy costume wings and crown recently and had the kids in stitches!
Sao Sideth (Buffalo) - Family Program Coordinator
BuffaloSao Sideth (known to everyone as Buffalo) has been working full time for CCT since early 2010 and we often wonder how we ever got by with out him!
As our Family Program Coordinator, Buffalo works closely with the 19 (and growing) CCT families. This includes organising and overseeing house-building projects, making support payments and rice-drops where necessary, monitoring and recording family progress and helping to resolve problems that arise. Buffalo is so passionate about his role at CCT that he will often spend his evenings and weekends using his personal time to mentor families about budget management and other vital life-skills.
Able to find, build or fix just about anything - Buffalo is the go-to-guy when a pipe bursts, a bike breaks, or to get the best local deal on whatever CCT needs. He has even offered to find respectable Cambodian husbands for Erin and Marnie! His experience as a Tuk-Tuk driver makes him a great guide for visiting CCT supporters - he's always ready with a story from his unbelievable life or an unexpected short-cut through the back-roads of Battambang.
With has a bright smile, a positive attitude and a contagious laugh- Buffalo has a gift for relating to people and putting them at ease - this is incredibly useful during CCT Family Assessment meetings when we meet with people to discuss their lives, problems, barriers to change and plans for the future.
Lavy On - English Teacher/ CCT Administrative Assistant
Lavy OnLavy has a passion for improving the lives of Cambodian children and works hard at every possible moment to gain more skills to help them.
Lavy (who has been working at CCT since 2010) begins each day with a Computer lesson before work; then teaches English at CCT House, the Boys’ and Girls’ Transition Houses and assists Lesley with vital teacher support and translation at the children’s Swimming Lessons. Between classes Lavy assists in the office by translating documents and sponsor letters, planning lessons and putting together teaching resources – he is extremely useful to have around and will happily orientate new staff members, show visitors around and undertake any administrative tasks that need doing.
In the evenings, Lavy studies Advanced English and English Teaching Skills, and on the weekends is working towards a degree in Resource Management at the Battambang University of Management and Economics.
Lavy’s genuine love and compassion for the children at CCT, and his ever-increasing skill base make him a great asset to the CCT team. His cheeky sense of humour makes our little office a fun place to be every day.
CCT Security Guard
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Our security guard Chuorn Jorn ensures supervision day and night at CCT House. He monitors the children coming and going from CCT, ensures that vehicles in the centre are travelling slowly and that the children behave safely when near the road.
Chuorn Jorn is also responsible for ensuring any visitors to CCT are approved and supervised by a staff member, and that all visitors show identification and have read and signed our Visitor Agreement before entering CCT.
Our security team has recently been joined by Rambo - the kids faithful Golden Retriever - who can be seen each day sitting at the gate keeping a watchful eye on everybody.
CCT's Teachers
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Journ, Rada, Sonary, Chin Borit, Lavy and Banja are experienced teachers who tutor the kids in Art, Maths, Traditional Apsara Dancing, Beading and Crafts, English and Computer Skills.