Meeting Sreyoun inspired CCF

Within the first twenty minutes of being on the garbage dump that very first day, Scott met a child. He couldn’t tell if it was a girl or a boy because they were completely covered up, partly to hide from the heat and partly because there was nowhere to leave their belongings.

It turned out that this girl, 9 year old Sreyoun, was working on the dump with her mother and younger sister, who he subsequently found out was seriously ill. As they were living in extreme poverty it was relatively inexpensive to sort out their problems right there and then. With the help of a translator, Scott had arranged a place for them to live, got the girls into school, the sister into hospital and when back in LA planned sending money each month to keep the family sustained.

It took little more than an hour and it struck him, with the horrific backdrop of the garbage dump, how simple it was to help. That was the start of CCF.

And in 2019, Sreyoun graduated from university with a degree in finance and economics.