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 The Khmer-Buddhist Education Assistance Project (KEAP) was founded in 1988 to assist Cambodian Buddhist temple communities and institutions following the near-destruction of Buddhism in Cambodia during the 1970s.
KEAP assists with education and learning needs while also promoting research on Buddhism and its social impact in Cambodia. We initially worked with the Buddhist wats (temple-monasteries) in the Khmer refugee camps along the Thai-Cambodian border. In 1992, with the repatriation of the refugees under a UN-sponsored peace plan, KEAP began work inside Cambodia.
One of our main ongoing activities has been distributing Buddhist, cultural, and community development-oriented printed and taped materials to temples in Cambodia as a basis for re-opening temple libraries and community learning centers.
From its home base in Crestone, Colorado (USA) and field office in Phnom Penh, KEAP is a "Friends of Buddhism in Cambodia" humanitarian organization, serving as a bridge between Buddhist and non-Buddhist donors abroad and needy and worthy Buddhist educational groups and initiatives in the country.
KEAP in its work as an intermediator and facilitator seeks to help promote a meaningful culture of peace in Cambodia, Khmer-Buddhist self-esteem among its people, and social renewal for a society that has been devastated by decades of war, genocide, and social upheaval.
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