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About the CFF
The Cambodian Futures Foundation (CFF) is a registered charity (Registration number 1113124) set up to help disadvantaged children and orphans in Cambodia.
In the short term this will be achieved by raising funds to help 25 children being looked after by an organisation in Cambodia called the New Cambodian Children's Life Association (NCCLA). The NCCLA is itself a charity registered in Cambodia, and was created in 2004 by Mr Neth Lay, a Cambodian national who saw the suffering of disadvantaged children and, knowing what they were going through, decided to do something about it. Neth and his wife Thavy run a non-profit restaurant called Veiyo Tonle (River Breeze) to finance the NCCLA and support the 25 children in question.
Some of these children have no parents, some only have one parent left alive, and some still have both their parents, but in the latter cases their parents are too poor to support their children, and sent them to the capital, Phnom Penh, to fend for themselves.
The NCCLA has given these children a roof over their heads, clothes them, feeds them and, most importantly, gives them an education, and as such a chance to make something of their lives, an opportunity that eludes many other orphaned and homeless children in Cambodia. It costs about 35 pounds a month to keep each child at the NCCLA centre, which sounds like very little, but multiplied by 25 this makes a substantial sum that needs to be raised each month. The income from the restaurant alone is simply not enough, and the CFF was set up mainly to help the NCCLA to raise the shortfall.
More details about the NCCLA can be found on their own website at www.ncclaorphanage.org, whilst brief biographies of the children the CFF supports can be found under 'The Reason why the CFF exists'.The CFF is run primarily by Alan Marchbank from Brighton, England.
The NCCLA team
Kids and helpers
Neth and Thavy, founders of the NCCLA
Children outside the NCCLA
At play in the orphanage
who we are
Alan spent many years working in the pharmaceutical industry, but always harboured the ambition to spend some time doing voluntary work in Cambodia, a country he had visited and fallen in love with in 1998. His ambitions were finally realised in June 2005, when he left his job to spend a year in Cambodia.
It was during this stay that he met Neth and Thavy and the children at the Veiyo Tonle restaurant and decided he wanted to help them. As such the Cambodian Futures Foundation was created and registered during a couple of months spent back in the UK at the start of 2006 before Alan returned to Phnom Penh to carry on his voluntary work. He returned to England in June 2006.
The Trustees of the CFF are Mr Brian Marchbank,Alan's Dad and a retired Civil Engineer, and Dr Tania Mumford, a biochemical researcher and mother of 2. The Trustees are responsible for ensuring the CFF is run according to the principles with which it was founded.