Follow Your Dream Cambodia and Digital Divide Data
Country: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Funding amount: $50,000 matching grant
Goals: Establish a viable nonprofit technology outsourcing business to employ disadvantaged people in Cambodia.
Follow Your Dream is training staff and developing a computer facility with Internet access in Phnom Penh for revenue-generating data entry jobs. The job creation program will allow under-privileged Cambodians access to opportunities in the global economy. Local partners, including an existing computer training facility, are participating in this process. This nonprofit venture, called Digital Divide Data, is creating a sustainable, revenue generating business by providing a range of technical services similar to technology outsourcing operations in India and elsewhere.