Our figures
Behind every figure, something very real.
For more than 30 years, we have tried to measure our impact in the simplest possible way:
What has really changed?
- A family turning on its tap.
- An artisan selling their work.
- A child learning English.
- A traveller staying one more night.
- A project that carries on after the grant has ended.
More than 30 years of commitment
AMICA has been working in Cambodia for more than three decades.
Health, education, access to water, economic development, community tourism: the projects have changed as needs have changed.
Our commitment has stayed the same.
2005It all began in December 2005, with around sixty visitors and $330 of income in a single week.
Since counting began, nearly 50,000 travellers have discovered Cheung Kok.
A tourism story, of course.
But above all a story of income created locally, artisans paid for their work and shared projects funded by the village.
- 139 families in Cheung Kok.
- 187 families in Trien, Penh and Kriel.
In 2025, the two networks supplied more than 26,000 m³ of water.
But the figure we are proudest of may well be this one:
The fees paid by the families fund the local teams, maintenance and the reserves needed for repairs.
Water pays for water.
After the sudden halt caused by Covid, travellers have come back.
- 918 in 2020.
- 0 in 2021.
- 1,591 in 2022.
- 3,364 in 2023.
- 4,362 in 2025.
| Year | Visitors | Income (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,735 | 12,100 |
| 2016 | 3,721 | 17,285 |
| 2017 | 3,440 | 16,254 |
| 2018 | 4,587 | 20,492 |
| 2019 | 4,100 | 20,620 |
| 2020 | 918 | 5,221 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1,591 | 4,835 |
| 2023 | 3,364 | 8,169 |
| 2024 | 3,226 | 8,000 |
| 2025 | 4,362 | 10,632 |
Visitor numbers are rising again.
Our next challenge is to make the income that stays in the village rise with it.
Of this income:
- $5,700 was paid to artisans.
- $2,816 paid the hosting team.
- $2,116 went into the village cooperation fund, for projects of common interest.
For us, visitor numbers are not an end in themselves.
What matters is what their visit creates locally.
Free classes that give children and young people more tools for their studies, their work and their future.
Two water networks. Two local treasuries.
- The Cheung Kok network holds $6,968 in its treasury.
- The Trien, Penh and Kriel network holds $8,414.
These reserves allow the local teams to maintain the installations and plan ahead for repairs.
Self-reliance is not measured only by what a project earns.
It is also measured by its ability to face tomorrow.
2026: the next step
This is the funding granted by the International Organisation of La Francophonie to support the next stage of community tourism in Cheung Kok for twelve months.
Together with local people and our partners, we have set three goals:
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~6,500 visitorscompared with 4,362 in 2025.
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~$22,000 in tourism incomecompared with $10,632 in 2025.
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30 to 35 active jobscompared with 16 in 2025.
202512-month goal
And then there is everything figures struggle to tell.
We want to measure what can be measured.
Without reducing our impact to a spreadsheet.
That is why we prefer a few verifiable figures to a lot of big promises.
- How do you measure an abandoned health centre that starts seeing patients again?
- The value of a water network still running years after it was built?
- What a first wage from tourism means?
- Or what a young person does, ten years on, with the English learned at a Sala?
Our figures change. We keep track of them.
In Cheung Kok, the teams regularly track the village’s activity: visitors, income, redistribution and how the programmes are running.
This helps us understand what works, what is slowing down and what needs to change.
And we would also rather show what is not working yet.
- Visitors have come back since Covid.
- Income, not enough yet.
That is exactly why we are now launching the next stage of Cheung Kok.