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Schools support schools: Microscopes for modern biology classes

We extend our heartfelt gratidude to the Swiss Olympic Sports School/Stiftung Sport-Gymnasium (SSGD) in Davos. Its principals have decided to donate eight monocular microscopes to four rural schools in Cambodia. A monocular microscope is simple, robust, and perfect for introducing primary-school pupils to hands-on observation. You can realistically and safely observe prepared slides, such as […]

Swiss citizens donate 35 laptops to three Cambodian rural primary schools

Under the framework of our ongoing ICT programme, Swiss private individuals have donated the delivery of 35 laptops to three primary schools in the Prasat Bakong, thereby making a significant contribution to education and equal opportunity for disadvantaged school kids in the Cambodian countryside. Thanks to the more than two dozen donors who backed this […]

A Principal’s Perspective from a “SHIP” School: Kok Chan Primary

When we talk to our supporters about our longstanding hygiene program “SHIP” (School Hygiene Improvement Program), we would mostly report back on improved enrolment rates as well as reduced class absence rates, about improved cleanliness in terms of waste management- and show lots of clean student hands with many happy student faces: Information on SHIP. […]

Initiative “Water Nickel” by Hotel Grischa concluded successfully

Grischa, a four-star superior alpine hotel in Davos, collected a sizeable sum of funds for Kamboo Project over the 2024/25 winter season. Each and every year since its inauguration, for every bottle water sold at the hotel bar, the Grischa team puts 5 Schweizerrappen (equivalent to 5 cents, a nickel) aside for a charitable cause. […]

Is 80 years too old for a Kamboo volunteer? “Not at all” says Martin Forderkunz

Retiree volunteer: At the age of 80, he traveled to Cambodia for an aid organization. Aid organizations abroad typically employ young people as volunteers. Martin Forderkunz from Toffen is an exception. Two Swiss newspapers have reported about Martin’s three months volunteership with Kamboo Project. https://kamboo-project.ngo/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Berner-Landbote-05.03.2025.pdf https://kamboo-project.ngo/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Berner-Zeitung-12.03.2025.pdf

Happy New Year in the Kamboo Project spirit of mindfulness

At Kamboo Project, we constantly invest in our staff, either by encouraging them to attend individual courses (e.g. language, accounting, management, leadership, communication), or by organising team workshops. As a very busy and productive year is drawing to a close, the Kamboo Project team came together for three days to reflect on achieved and missed […]

Geberit Social Project 2024

Geberit and Kamboo Project complete the ‘Geberit Social Project 2024’ on time and on budget The globally active Geberit Group is the European market leader for sanitary products and will be celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2024. For Geberit, corporate social responsibility has been a cornerstone of apprentice development for a decade and a half. […]