Community Commitment III

Jaya House River Park Hotel will make monthly donations to the “Cambodian Landline Museum” in Siem Reap

The Cambodian Landmine Museum was founded by CNN Hero Aki Ra. An ex-child soldier he fought in the many armies that populated Cambodia in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.

It is a Cambodian NGO, run for and by Cambodians; to make their country safe for their people.

After working for the UN clearing landmines he returned to the fields where he had fought and began clearing landmines with home made tools and his bare hands. From 1997-2007 he cleared perhaps 50,000 landmines and unexploded ordnance. Some of these items, all safe, are exhibited at the museum. The museum has a Children's Relief Center that is home to over two-dozen at-risk children. They are nurtured, and provided with education, including university scholarships.

The museum tells the story of landmines in Cambodia and around the world through Ak Ra's story. And the money raised pays livable salaries to its employees, helps clear landmines, helps build schools in rural villages and cares for the children in its care.

It is a Cambodian NGO, run for and by Cambodians; to make their country safe for their people.