Phnom Penh - Teuk Thla, Cambodia Mission, 29 Nov – 6 Dec 2025 Registration

Mission size: 60-65 participants

The Phnom Penh Teuk Thla Mission is a week-long work and spiritual experience in the Don Bosco school run by the Salesian sisters. We work closely with them and their prayerful and joyful attitude always inspires us and we learn how to live well in community and overcome difficulties with patience and love.

Don Bosco Teuk Thla school is located in the city with about 1400 students from poor families who are cared for by the Sisters. They are found and gathered into the fold from the most impoverished of urban conditions. 

We cooperate with the Salesian Sisters to uplift their circumstances and grow their ability to cope with the harsh city life they are thrust into. This is an opportunity to make a real difference, to bring mutual learning, friendship, Christian values and support to the students and families in their school and home. We also fundraise to help give them the opportunity to be in school. So if you have an open heart and willing hands and minds, you are called.

Participants should be physically and mentally well to participate in the mission's strenuous day. While the mission is primarily geared towards participants who are 16 and above, we accommodate participants of ages 13 (as of Dec 2025) and above to join. Participants aged *13–15 years must be accompanied by at least one parent. *16-18 year olds need a guardian or parent to accompany, and *19-20 year olds need parental consent.

We encourage families and extended families to come together to share in this bonding and affirming experience.

We are looking for people with skills, experience and/or interest in:
- teaching, educating, working in educational institutions
- student leadership and facilitating
- organisational teaching and team building 
- career building, financial, virtues teaching 
- art, dancing, reading, speech and drama, music, balloon art, and all creative endeavours
- catechesis and values empowerment 
- logistics and administration 
- IT, videography and photography

1. Mission Fee: SGD300
2. Accomodation: USD40 to USD50 per night for twin share
3. Airfare: SGD400 approximately
4. Personal Costs : 3 to 4 dinner meals on free-and-easy nights: USD5 to USD10 (simple meals) per meal and transport if needed

Application closes on 22 Jun 2025. You will need to attend a Mission Awareness session to understand details about the mission outreach and what is expected from you. Participants who are still interested will be required to attend at least 3 further preparation sessions & some sub-team planning meetings. Past participants are required to attend all the Pre-Mission sessions.

ACTS Phnom Penh - TeukThla 2025 is co-ordinated by Lynette-Lee Chan.

Registration form

Participating family members are required to register individually.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

! Date of Birth: Participants must be between 10-70 years of age this calendar year.

CONTACT INFORMATION

EMERGENCY CONTACT (should not be travelling on the same mission trip)

PERSONAL PROFILE (about yourself)

PAST MISSION INFORMATION

MISSION PREFERENCE

FAMILY GROUP

Participants 13, 14, 15 years of age (as of Dec 2025) must be accompanied by a parent.
Participants 16, 17, 18 years of age (as of Dec 2025) must be accompanied by a parent or guardian and have parental consent.
Participants 19-20 years of age (as of Dec 2025) must have parental consent.
A guardian shall be 25 years old or older. A guardianship responsibility is extended to no more than 2 minors not of kin.

MISSION OVERVIEW

AIRFARE
Participants are responsible for purchasing their own flight tickets and mandatory travel insurance.

ACCOMMODATION
Hotel reservations will be arranged for participants and all room and miscellaneous charges incurred will be settled by participants upon check out on the last day.
Roommate must be either siblings/parent-child or of the same gender, if unrelated.

COST

The Mission Fee for Phnom Penh is SGD300 per person. It shall be paid via PayNow during Mission Awareness session. Cash will not be accepted. Please note that we might adjust the Mission Fee due to unforeseen circumstances such as inflation.

The Mission Fee is used to help defray costs incurred for Cambodia airport transfers to and from hotel, meals, daily water supply, mission related transport and any expenses that may arise during mission week.  It does not include airfare, hotel accommodation for the week and any personal expenses such as dinners on free-and-easy nights. Any balance from the total fees collected will be put back into the ACTS Central Mission Fund for use the following year.  There will be no refunds of Mission Fees except on medical grounds or by appeal due to exceptional circumstances.

PRE MISSION COMMITMENT
In preparation for a meaningful outreach experience, you will need to attend 4 Pre-Mission sessions mentioned on the homepage. Attendance by proxy (whether by parents or friends) will not be considered. For newcomers, please note that Mission Awareness session 1 is on 27 Jul 2025 and you should book your flight tickets only after this session.

LUGGAGE
Ensure you have spare luggage space to help carry up items for the mission. We require  at least 10kg from each participant.

TRAVEL
All participants must arrive on/before 29 Nov 2025 and depart only on/after 6 Dec 2025. Applications that do not meet these dates will not be considered. Once a participant has been officially confirmed for the mission, he/she will need to submit a screenshot of the flight details.

GUARDIANS (for participants 19 years old or younger)
Due to past experiences in previous missions, mission leaders have considered it prudent to institute the following guidelines for guardianship:
- Guardians of participants shall be 25 years old or older
- Maximum of 2 wards per guardian
- Guardians must fly in and out with their wards
- Guardians must be responsible for their wards during “off” hours
- 1 ward must have a guardian in their vocation (in case guardians move from 1 mission to another, etc)

- Each ward must have a guardian in their vocation (in case guardians move from 1 mission to another, etc)