Village Health and Community Development (VHCD)

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What is Village Health and Community Development (VHCD)?

Village Health and Community Development (VHCD) is a health ngo, Cambodia. Village Health and Community Development is committed to improving the health of Cambodian school children by improving the knowledge of Cambodian nurses. Placing a locally trained nurse in a school to treat and advise children can be dangerous. Cambodian nursing schools are lecture based and cover much less material than required. Despite the inadequate education Cambodian nurses receive, they may evaluate, diagnose and treat patients without restrictions. There appears to be a disconnect between what is taught and what is allowed. BulletCambodians schools benefit from a properly trained nurse. Training a nurse requires understanding of the deficiencies in Cambodian nurse training. They need hands on experience. We place them in schools where they can benefit from direct patient care. We then mentor and monitor them on a daily, monthly and quarterly basis with feedback and lectures. In turn we enlightened ourselves by appreciating the marvel of the Cambodian culture. Having been through mass genocide they are resilient people who are working hard to rebuild their community into a functional society. In Cambodia there will be struggles for generations to come and every bit of encouragement to the country’s young aids in their recovery. We are proud to have been a part of that progress. We delineated our goals, met many of them, fell short on others, but felt accomplished in our effort. We are a small organization with limited people to execute our mission. That mission was to educate local Cambodian nurses empowering them to either gain access to larger organizations where they can advance their careers or remain in their villages and become trusted advisors to the community. We met that goal. Our nurses spent years receiving daily electronic feedback, monthly lectures on increasingly difficult medical topics, and quarterly nurse seminars for which they were required a passing grade to advance to the next level. The lecture topics were becoming sophis

Where is Village Health and Community Development (VHCD) located?

Headquartered in Cambodia.

Is Village Health and Community Development (VHCD) trustworthy?

Village Health and Community Development (VHCD) has a GiveRadar Integrity Assessment of 25 out of 100 (Limited data available). The score reflects public-data transparency: registration, financial disclosure, governance, contact details, and how recently data was refreshed. It does not measure program impact.

What is Village Health and Community Development (VHCD)'s registration number?

Registration: KH-CCC-318 (Cambodia).

Are donations to Village Health and Community Development (VHCD) tax-deductible?

Donations may be tax-deductible for residents of Cambodia under local rules. US donors should check whether the charity has an equivalency-determination letter or a US-based fiscal sponsor before claiming a deduction.