Cambodia Childrens Trust

Tara Winkler is an amazing and inspirational young woman. At twenty three, she has established an orphanage in Battambang, Cambodia to save children from a life of abuse and neglect.

This girl makes you reassess yourself and your own life. If she can do something so life changing, why can't I?

Tara Winkler enjoyed a wealthy upbringing in Bondi, Sydney. However, after a holiday to Cambodia she gave up her life in Australia to help orphans.

The passion to help these children comes from part of Tara's history. Her grandmother was a survivor of the Jewish Holocaust. She believes that helping these children is no coincidence.

Their parents were victims of Pol Pot's horrific regime and they have endured the long reaching consequences of his decision to bull doze Cambodia and start from the 'year zero' in 1975. He imposed agrarian collectivization which resulted in slave labour, malnutrition, execution and the deaths of an estimated 1.7 to 2.5 million people, approximately 21% of the Cambodian population.

Tara has created the Cambodian Children's Trust. In order to survive, the orphanage must raise $50,000 a year.

She intends to transform the orphanage into a sustainable "eco-village". She plans to spend five years and $2million introducing development projects that will enable the orphanage to support itself.

Her designs include buying a 40-hectare plot to establish a plantation as well as a fruit, vegetable and herb permaculture garden.

A medical facility, animal clinic, education program and English school are in the works.

See more at http://www.cambodianchildrenstrust.org/.