Marshall and Silent Foundation | Partners
Marshall Foundation (Berge Bulk Shipping):
5 year partnershiP:18 new CLEAN WATER SYSTEMS committed, 2019-2020
Marshall Foundation has supported WAH for many years and continues to help us build water systems year after year. Their team have invested time visiting Kampong Chhnang and contributed to building and installing systems with guidance from our team on-site: from their own direct, and personal experience, the Marshall team totally understand what its like to operate in remote, rural areas. WAH is indeed blessed to have Marshall Foundation as a long term partner and donor.
“The efforts of WAH have achieved significant results. The number of illnesses caused by unsanitary water sources has decreased significantly – a doctor from a village near Tonlé Sap River even reported an 80% drop in water-related stomach ailments since the installation of WAH’s filtered water pumps. Since 2010, WAH’s extensive water projects have impacted approximately 200,000 people and around 200 schools, while also ensuring the availability of clean water for all 3 hospitals and 42 health centres in the Kampong Chhnang province. Besides its water projects, WAH also branches into pediatric healthcare and has even spearheaded a hospital midwife and pediatric training initiative with KK women’s and children’s hospital from Singapore, which started in 2013. They have run training programs for over 200 local midwives covering birthing methods and emergency practices. This year there will be 2 pediatric training programs, training up to 80 pediatric nurses and doctors.
THE SILENT FOUNDATION:
5 year partnership
Silent Foundation was founded in July 2010 by Mr Teng Ngiek Lian and his family. The foundation is dedicated to assist ‘silent sufferers’. Silent sufferers refer to those who have been overlooked by society and tend to be voiceless, such as by funding charities helping foreign workers, the elderly & by promoting environmental conservation & animal protection. In Mr Teng and his son Matthew’s professional work, they are involved in value investing which focuses on the overlooked and unloved sectors.
Silent Foundation were very impressed with the work WAH and KKH were doing together, training midwives and paediatric nurses and doctors in Cambodia, and the Train-the-Trainer program we have been running. Mr Teng and Matthew decided to support the programs over a 3 year period, which has helped us train 300+ midwives, nurses and doctors, and 20 essential CORE trainers. This partnership has had a massive impact on the province of Kampong Chhnang, with a drop of 90% in maternal mortality, and a raising of medical standards in hospitals and health centres. It’s a great honour to be in partnership with Silent Foundation.