Case Studies

Education

Step Safe partnered with local Cambodian NGO Yodifee to expand their educational programs for disabled persons.
Step Safe provided funding to expand Yodifee’s computer training program. The program is taught by a disabled person and serves disabled students.
Computer skills are necessary for the disabled to further their education and for employability.

Step Safe partnered with local Cambodian NGO New Horizons Society (NHS), an organization of federated self-help groups founded and run by disabled people dedicated to promoting equality, ending poverty, and securing life-changing opportunities for their membership.
Step Safe provided vital emergency operational funding as the organization was in between major grants, allowing the organization to continue providing self-help groups services including advocacy rights, social inclusion projects and microloan livelihood activities, including pig and chicken rearing, retailing, natural composting and motorcycle repairing.
Today NHS has secured a large multi-year grant from an international donor agency and continues to provide beneficiary-led poverty reduction projects.

Step Safe partnered with local Cambodian NGO Teuk Sa’at to build two safe water wells.
The infrastructure in these villages was destroyed in the war.
Health care services and safe drinking was virtually non-existent, resulting in serious health issues for the villagers.
The disabled-accessible wells continue to supply the villagers with clean water.

Step Safe partnered with local NGO Cambodian War Amputees Society (CWARS).
Step Safe financial assistance provided 27 CWARS Income Generation Program Graduates with the seed money to begin their businesses.
The microloans were used to buy spare parts and tools for their bicycle shops and agricultural plots.
The microloans have been paid back and are now available for new graduates.