Who we are

Lotus Outreach Cambodia (LOCAM) is a local, non-governmental, non-profitable, non-political and non-religious organization, registered with the Ministry of Interior in January 2008. LOCAM is dedicated to ensuring the education, health and safety of at-risk women and children to help create a more just, peaceful, and equitable society where all people—regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, and gender— can lead rich and meaningful lives that are free of physical and structural violence.

LOCAM's CAmbodian Tertiary Education And Leadership, YouthS Training program— (CATALYST) is designed to offer assistance to ensure girls finish tertiary studies and/or training and further education programs that lead to certain employment and provide seminars and mentoring with emphasis on leadership, professional development and self-development, health, social as well as gender issues that will prepare these young women as potential agents of social change.

The CATALYST program visits girls at their high schools to provide timely employment and further education orientation for high school girls under GATE scholarships supported by Lotus Outreach at Siem Reap and Phnom Penh. Preparing them at this level will ensure they understand what subjects they should be studying to match their further education and training choices and so they know where and how to apply to universities and training institutes and where they can get at least partial scholarships to reduce their tuition costs and in some cases they can get full residential scholarship should they win such an award.