Making a global impact – the GREEN Project

We will be raising funds for the four year ‘GREEN project’, implemented by our charitable partner, Save the Children, in collaboration with local authorities in the East Tonle Sap Lake region and jointly funded by the European Union.

By supporting the GREEN Project, we will help over 40,000 adults and children and 8,000 fishing households on East Tonle Sap Lake, one of the most ecologically fragile areas of Cambodia, whose livelihoods and future have been hugely impacted by climate change. Working with children and families living around the Tonle Sap Lake, our GREEN project is:

• providing clean drinking water and sanitation using climate-intelligent technologies, so children stay healthy

• helping families diversify their incomes through green initiatives to reduce reliance on the fishing industry
• giving children the chance to go to school and learn by equipping and rebuilding classrooms, training teachers and providing safe travel.

We are raising funds that will go towards helping children build a future they deserve.

Fragile Futures: The Children of Cambodia's East Tonle Sap Lake

“There have been lots of changes. The heat from the sun getting hotter. We lost all the fish, the natural resources. We have nothing left. People who live on the river can’t make a living anymore.”

Award-winning photographer Lim Sokchanlina, on a special assignment commissioned by Save the Children to highlight the impact of climate change on children in the area, met with families and children living on the lake.

Combining science and art, Lim tells their stories through a set of experimental photographs. Working with chemist Dr Marcus Dymond of the University of Brighton, his negatives were tarnished in a lab with a variety of climate-related treatments, including a saline solution. Interesting white swirls emerged as the salt crystallized, creating abstract watery shapes. Liquid DCP – a greenhouse gas you can find in both solvents and natural materials like mud – was applied to other images, which gave them a yellowy tinge

This exposure to the causes and consequences of climate change created striking visual effects to represent the impact of changing weather, extreme heat and pollution on the lives and futures of children like Chenla.

You can immerse yourself in these photographs by stepping into our virtual gallery.