Cambodia

Cambodia is where the SCOOP story began. In 2009, Andy went there on a backpacking trip with some disastrous outcomes. He was robbed twice and even kidnapped yet his trip found a silver lining when he volunteered at the SCAO orphanage in Phnom Penh.

Unable to shake the poverty and injustice he witnessed, Andy put on the first SCOOP fundraiser back in Dublin for SCAO in December. Fast forward a few years and SCOOP built their first school on the outskirts of PP. A second was built in the village of Som Roung and a third in Prey Ponrar.

As a result hundreds of kids and young adults have received an education which is crucial to keeping them out of the spiral of sweat shops, prostitution and poverty.

SCOOP currently sponsor The Cairde Khmer GAA Club which brings the beautiful game to Cambodians and the Irish community in Phnom Penh. Apart from promoting gaelic, the club helped several Cambodians get their first passports to travel to the Asian Gaelic Games 2019 in Malaysia which they subsequently won!