Milestones

The Early Years
1994 Hagar opens a shelter for women and their children.
1995 New community in Koh Kor Island provides homes for 15 families
1996 Hagar On Time (then known as Hagar Crafts) starts with the vision to provide women from the Hagar Shelter income generating opportunities. 23 women are employed.
1997 Construction of the new shelter in Phnom Penh
1998 Hagar opens a foster home for children, located separately from the women’s shelter.
1998 Hagar Catering and Hagar Soya begin operations; soya milk which is sold from hand carts in the city, Phnom Penh.
1999 Hagar begins installing water filters in rural communities. Over 30,000 filters have since been installed, ensuring families have access
to clean water, drastically reducing disease.

The New Millennia
2000 House of Smiles, a residential care facility for disabled children, is established.
2000 First Foster home is built Second and Third schools are constructed in Kompong Thom
2001 Water filter project begins operations, introducing BioSand water filters in Kompong Thom and Kratie Fourth school is built in Kompong Thom, Cambodia Pilot group home is established for five children with disabilities
from the Nutrition Centre Orphanage
2001 Hagar On Time is commercialized
2002 Fifth and sixth school is built in Kompong Thom, Cambodia Third foster home is constructed
2003 Four foster homes are built specifically for children
2003 Opening Ceremony of Hagar Soya., Ltd
2004 Hagar Australia is established to support Hagar activities
2005 Aftercare centre for girls who are victims of human trafficking for sexual exploitation is opened, providing them with specialized care and a safe home.
2005
Hagar establishes a catering & facilities management business which has grown rapidly, now serving nearly 50,000 meals each month
2005 Hagar USA is established to support Hagar activities
2006 Hagar International is formed and tasked to study the
Hagar Replication Project
2006 Hagar establishes a Community Learning Center (CLC), a school that provides “catch-up” education to serve children who have fallen behind their grade level including children from the surrounding community
2006 Implemented a Nutritional Fortification Program of Soya Milk targeting the Social Sector Market (School Feeding Programs)
2007 Nestle Co., Ltd donates a factory to Hagar Cambodia, Career Pathways program is implemented, an innovative approach to job training and work placement.  Hagar’s children’s department instigates the Community Based Care program which seeks to place children in foster families within the community.
2008 Hagar International embarks on the Replication Project, launching its first operations outside Cambodia in Kabul, Afghanistan