Trailblazer Foundation

A self-sustaining and community driven effort to improve health, food security, education, and economic development in rural Cambodia. The Trailblazer Foundation focuses on improving the lives of rural Cambodians through four program areas—health, food security, education, and economic development. TF chooses projects based on a community assessment of village needs. Through this bottom-up process, Trailblazer has helped communities support education, develop food programs, and install clean water systems that are self-sustaining and community driven.

Trailblazer Foundation works with the poorest communities in Cambodia's Siem Reap province, location of the world-renowned Angkor Wat. Without technical and financial support, these village communities cannot develop beyond a level of subsistence, and remain in a state of poverty where survival is a struggle.

Trailblazer is most well known for helping our partner villages secure clean and abundant water. For each of more than 50 villages, we start by helping the community to dig wells and construct water filters. In addition to pure and plentiful water, these villages also need ample food to feed their families, good education facilities for their children, and opportunities to make a living.

Our four program areas—health, food security, education, and economic development—represent a well-rounded strategy for not just giving our partner communities a proverbial fish, but helping them learn how to live in ways that are self-sustaining.