SOS Children's Village Phnom Penh is situated on the outskirts of the old city in an area called New Phnom Penh, which is quite close to the airport. The land is all flat and very dry during most of the year. There is a Primary School opposite the SOS Children's Village. The vegetable market is close by, and the mothers can go there on bicycle. In Phnom Penh it is hot during the summer months (i.e. from February to June), with temperatures of 33 to 36 degrees Celsius. The monsoon period is from July to September. From October to December, temperatures are rather low (about four to six degrees Celsius).
SOS Children's Village Phnom Penh consists of fourteen family houses, a community house, an office building, the village director's house and some additional buildings. Up to 140 children can find a new home there. Many children suffer from vitamin deficiency and various diseases of the skin when they come to the SOS Children's Village. They are treated and vaccinated and usually they soon get better. The SOS Children's Village co-workers organize special sports and arts programmes for the children during their free time.
Next to the SOS Children's Village, there is an SOS Kindergarten and an SOS Youth Facility. The SOS Kindergarten with its six classrooms and playground is also open to children from the neighbourhood. Up to 200 children can be taken care of at the kindergarten. For working mothers from the neighbourhood, it is very important to have a place where they can leave their children during the day. Older boys from the SOS Children's Village normally move to the SOS Youth Facility when they start a vocational training course or go on to higher education. With the support of qualified youth workers, they develop realistic perspectives for their future, learn to shoulder responsibility and increasingly make their own decisions.
An SOS Hermann Gmeiner School (primary school) was finished in January 2008. The school consists of twelve classrooms, laboratories, a library, an assembly hall and a canteen. Up to 450 children can be taught there. The school is now run by the local authorities.
In 2010, SOS Children's Villages opened a secondary school with twelve classrooms, seven laboratories, a library, a gym and an activity hall.