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Sumner M. Redstone, chairman and controlling shareholder of Viacom and CBS, with his daughter, Shari, right, and granddaughter Kim in 2003.
28th September 2012
Beverly Hills, California, United States (Business Wire (Business Wire India)) Sumner Redstone today announced a grant of $700,000 to the Cambodian
Children's Fund (CCF), a non-profit program that provides a wide range
of critical health and educational services to impoverished and abused
children in Cambodia's capital city of Phnom Penh. This most recent gift
brings Mr. Redstone's total commitment to CCF to $2.7 million. Mr. Redstone's initial $500,000 grant in 2007 established CCF's child rescue
center, followed by gifts totaling $1.2 million in 2011.
The CCF is a community-based program that provides the city's most
at-risk children with education, health care, nutrition and a play area,
all within a secure environment. The Sumner M. Redstone Center cares for
children of all ages and includes a nursery for children under three who
are recovering from malnutrition, illness or have unsafe home lives; a
day care center for three to six year-olds, many from impoverished and
seriously disadvantaged domestic situations; and an education center
with classes for children from age six through sixteen, who have no
other education opportunities. The Center also houses a food program for
the surrounding community children and a medical clinic.
Mr. Redstone said, “I have been so inspired by the turnaround in the
health and well-being of the children the Cambodian Children’s Fund
serves, children from some of the most destitute areas of Cambodia. Over
the years the CCF has grown to serve thousands of children, and extended
its life changing programs to families and communities as well. I am so
proud to support the CCF as it expands to provide even more high risk
children with the critical services they need most.”
Scott Neeson, the founder and executive director of CCF, said, "Mr.
Redstone's earlier donations allowed us to bring education, health care
and nutrition to hundreds more high risk children. This latest gift
provides what is now the most critical need for these young children:
the consistency of education and care. After such difficult and
turbulent pasts, the promise of longer term care is invaluable. Mr.
Redstone's generosity allows us to make such a commitment to these
most-deserving of children. His investment in education especially will
provide better lives for generations to come."
The Cambodian Children's Fund was founded in 2004 by Mr. Neeson to aid
the most impoverished of Cambodia's children. The CCF's Phnom Penh
facility was initially established as a safe house for Cambodia's
orphaned, abandoned or abused children, providing secure shelter and
nutritional meals within a caring environment. Since then, the CCF has
grown to include full education, medical care, vocational training and
community outreach services for Cambodia's most impoverished children
and their families. With six facilities now operating, CCF's services
include maternal care, clean water, a food program, a nursery for the
most at-risk newborns and infants, a day care center, a garment training
facility and a bakery. CCF also provides a comprehensive educational
program for over 1,400 children, including local language reading and
writing, multi-level English classes, social studies and math. The
Cambodian Children's Fund was recently announced as the recipient of the
2012 Wise Award for innovation in education, the first organization in
the region to win such a prize.
More information on the Cambodian Children's Fund can be found at: http://www.cambodianchildrensfund.org/.
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