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Goutte d’eau – a child support network (GEcsn) is a non-political, non-religious Swiss foundation. It was created in 1996 by a group of young people who, after discovering the extreme poverty and unsustainable conditions in which street children lived, decided to create a foundation to raise funds in Switzerland and build up projects to assist the most vulnerable and marginalized children of Cambodia. In 1997 the foundation opened a center for street children in Neak Loeung which was named Damnok Toek (‘drop of water’ in Khmer) and later on a project for trafficked and substance abusing children in Poipet (1999), followed by a center for children with physical and mental disabilities in Phnom Penh (2003), and more recently a social business for young people with mental disabilities in Kep (2016).