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Clean water is life’s most basic need, yet one in eight people of the world’s population do not have access to it. Eighty-eight per cent of cases of diarrhea worldwide are attributable to unsafe water, inadequate sanitation or insufficient hygiene. These cases result in 1.5 million deaths each year, most being children. In Cambodia, a country of 14.8 million, there are over 9,000,000 cases of diarrhea. Bad water accounts for 13% of the deaths and 14.8% of the health burden. As of 2010, Government spending on health care corresponded to 5.8% of Cambodia's gross domestic product (GDP). Trailblazer works primarily with the poorest of the poor because they are the least likely to get assistance.

Communities we help are isolated, largely overlooked by other development groups, and cannot develop beyond a level of subsistence on their own. We address basic needs first: helping them secure access to clean and sufficient water to assure a healthier livelihood. We then teach improved agriculture and horticulture practices for increased agriculture production for sufficient food security and income generation. Villagers who spend their day sourcing water and food just to survive have little time or energy to contemplate better education, employment opportunities or how they can contribute to the development of their country. We have witnessed that with the most basic needs met villagers can develop and there is internally generated economic progress activity: i.e. transportation, technology and other aid involvement happening.

For more information please view our website www.thetrailblazerfoundation.org.