Impact Spotlight

Delivering free healthcare to more than 40,000 people across remote floating communities on Tonlé Sap Lake

Provide reliable electricity for medical equipment, lighting, and communications year-round

Expanding on the 60k healthcare services delivered in in 2025, including maternal and child health care, vaccinations, and dental care

About

The Lake Clinic Cambodia (TLC) provides medical care and health education to communities located in the isolated Tonle Sap Lake region. TLC’s services are provided at no cost to ten distinct floating villages on the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia. Over one million people live on or around the lake, and the majority of these families rely on fishing as their only source of income, earning around US$2.50 per day.

Travel from the lake region to a clinic in the city can cost as much as $50 in diesel fuel, so TLC’s floating clinics and their Cambodian clinical staff provide an essential service to these floating villages, delivering free healthcare from their solar-powered clinic boats.

“Solar energy doesn’t just power our floating clinics — it powers our promise. A promise that no matter how remote the village, no matter the hour, The Lake Clinic will come.”

— Jon Morgan, Founder & Executive Director

HF Partnership

Since partnering with the Honnold Foundation in 2019, The Lake Clinic Cambodia has strengthened access to healthcare for remote floating communities through clean, reliable solar energy. Honnold Foundation's support has enabled the floating clinics to power essential medical equipment, lighting, communications, and vaccine cold-chain storage, ensuring uninterrupted healthcare delivery.

As the multi-year partnership continues, TLC is expanding research and innovation in renewable energy solutions for floating communities on the Tonlé Sap Lake. The next phase includes developing solar-powered electric boat engines for TLC operations to reduce dependence on fossil fuels, promoting solar-powered boats for local livelihoods, installing solar-powered water filtration systems to improve access to safe drinking water, and piloting floating greenhouses to strengthen food security and nutrition and climate resilience. Together, these initiatives will build healthier, more sustainable, and climate-resilient communities while improving the lives of more than 40,000 people across 10 floating communities.