Cambodia
HealthFriends of Cambodia in the U.S. (FOCUS) - Improving the Health of Children in Cambodia
Address
Friends of Cambodia in the U.S. (FOCUS)
1062 Lewiston Road
New Gloucester,
Maine
4260
United States
207-345-9835
Mission
The mission of FOCUS is to pursue humanitarian programs that include medical aid, school construction and supplies, distribution of rice and rice seeds, road improvements, agricultural improvements, fish farms, basic housing, hospital restoration, school scholarships, and loans for infrastructure improvements. We want to help disadvantaged youth and their families, if they have any, in a country where the infrastructure is still weak due to Khmer Rouge depredations.
Programs
Since 1995, FOCUS founder John Bodwell has spent about $40,000 out of his military pension to build wells, replace flood-control culverts crushed by armored vehicles, donate rice and rice seeds, sponsor medical visits by two Cambodian doctors to various villages, sponsor STD lectures by a doctor and supply writing pads, pens and pencils to a rural school with 300 students. FOCUS is paying for the education in Cambodia of an accountant who will work in our organization's Phnom Penh office.
Friends of Cambodia in the U.S. (FOCUS)'s Funded Projects on GlobalGiving
 Improving the Health of Children in Cambodia |
 Improving the Health of Children in Cambodia |
Personnel Overview
John Bodwell - Chairman and CEO
John is a retired Army and Marine Corps sergeant who served in Vietnam and who now devotes much of his time to raising money for FOCUS. He began making humanitarian trips to Cambodia in 1995.
Sunny B. Mao - General Secretary
Sunny is a Cambodian-American refugee who lives in Augusta, Maine, and who has contributed almost $10,000 to FOCUS. He has been instrumental in connecting FOCUS with Cambodian-American populations in southern Maine and Massachusetts as well as California.
Dave Griffiths - President
Dave is a Vietnam veteran who spent two years in the Army as an officer before pursuing a career in journalism and teaching. He joined FOCUS to help with marketing and fundraising. He traveled with John to Cambodia in September 2001 on a fact-finding trip.
Personnel Statistics
John Bodwell, Chairman and CEO
Founded in 2001
Employees: 0
Volunteers: 10
