ABOUT US

Project Indochina originated in 2005 as a private philanthropic venture in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. From this modest beginning, PIC has
progressed to become a significant Non Government Organization (NGO) in Vietnam and Cambodia.

The first major achievement of PIC was the development of a hospitality training centre and restaurant in the city of Hoi An, Central Vietnam. At this centre, boys and girls from disadvantaged backgrounds were trained in hospitality skills in a real work environment. The restaurant building also contained a separate schoolroom, which was used for both hospitality training and extra curricular study for disadvantaged children. Concurrent with this, PIC also provided funding for institutions, education opportunities, medical services, basic living expenses and short term crisis funding for disadvantaged children and their families.  During 2008 the PIC administration office and training facilities were relocated to larger, more functional premises in Hoi An. These new premises also provide secure accommodation and living facilities for full time and short term volunteer workers with PIC. A school for disadvantaged children also takes place here over the two month mid-year summer holiday.

PIC has one full time Australian and three full time Vietnamese staff members. The permanent staff are
augmented by Vietnamese, Cambodian and foreign volunteers. Australian staff are not remunerated
and pay their own international travel expenses and most living expenses.
For more information about PIC STAFF click here

The operational detail and plans of PIC alter according to the ever changing landscape and
challenges of aid delivery. The operational functions of  PIC are grouped into three classifications,
HUMANITARIAN AID, EDUCATION and COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.
For further information, click here for HUMANITARIAN AID, click here for EDUCATION,
click here for COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.

Community development is a fast growing component of the PIC aid program. Currently, PIC is engaged in several small scale, and two major community development projects, one in the Nam Giang district of Quang Nam province, Vietnam and the other at the Trey Kho and An Dong communes in the Kampot district of southern Cambodia. The Nam Giang project involves 22,000 people from 9 communes, housed in 64 villages. Nam Giang is the home of the C’Tu ethnic minority and is one of the most remote areas of Vietnam.
The Trey Kho and An Dong project will benefit 15,000 ethnic Khmer and Cham Muslim inhabitants currently living without clean water and in primitive, unsanitary conditions near the town of Kampot.

Project Indochina is an incorporated association and licensed charity in Australia. It is a non political, secular organization that receives no government aid in any form and relies totally on corporate and private donation to function.