OUR PROJECTS

​I. PEACE CAMP

It’s a platform where organizations, artists and beneficiaries can meet and share experiences, methodologies, and best  practices to build PEACE. It’s a place enabling to create a  comprehensive leadership program for Khmer youth, using yoga, meditation, the arts and techniques of non-violent  communication, with the goal of tackling contemporary social issues in constructive ways and not repeating the cycles of  violence of past generations. Peace Camp is organized yearly with a different theme related to peace building.  This year, the theme was Volunteerism, Environmental issues and Inner Peace.

 
II. PEACE CURRICULUM
  
AZAHAR Foundation organizes a Peace Curriculum in Phnom Penh that is geared towards young people between  16 to 25 years of age. AZAHAR Foundation proposes that this Inner Peace can be reached through the practices of Yoga and Meditation, coupled with creative arts, and supported by  specific methodologies of non-violent communication, conflict resolution and youth leadership. Its objective is to awaken  interest in a specialization of any of the subjects offered, with the goal for participants to become effective leaders and  peacekeepers in their respective communities. The main  subjects are Non-Violent Communication, Leadership,  Women’s Empowerment, Art Therapy (Dance, Poetry, Circus, Bokator) and Yoga / Meditation.

 
III. YOGA FOR ALL                     
 
AZAHAR Foundation aims at providing yoga to a wide amount of Cambodian people. Under privilege kids and young people are our main targets but we also provide yoga to adults who are looking for stress relief and well-being.
Yoga for ALL reach people from all over the country, not only in main cities. We work with many partners who are already active in the communities.