Impact Spotlight
13,000 people with free healthcare access
4 floating clinics with upgraded solar PV systems
2x power increase for essential medical equipment
About
The Lake Clinic Cambodia (TLC) provides medical care and health education to communities located in the isolated Tonle Sap Lake region. TLC’s services are provided at no cost to eight distinct floating villages on the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia. Over one million people live on or around the lake, and the majority of these families rely on fishing as their only source of income, earning around US$2.50 per day.
Travel from the lake region to a clinic in the city can cost as much as $50 in diesel fuel-- so TLC’s floating clinics and their Cambodian clinical staff provide an essential service to these floating villages, delivering free healthcare from their solar-powered clinic boats.
“Much of what is accomplished [by TLC] is driven by a desire to offer the best possible care, with the most loving, respectful, flexible approach possible. This is a small but very mighty organization.”
HF Partnership
The Honnold Foundation’s support will double the power of TLC’s four boat fleet, providing consistent and reliable electricity for their medical work. The previous system was decades old, and underpowered for the clinical staff’s needs — halfway through clinic days, their computers would die and the team would resort to taking notes on paper. With an upgraded solar and battery system for their floating clinics, TLC is even better equipped to provide excellent, no cost healthcare services to the families of Tonle Sap Lake.
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