A Handwashing Station For Elementary School Students

Many of us are taught as children to practice proper hygiene through methods such as washing our hands regularly. Numerous hygiene-related topics find their way into our consciousness early on, and that is for a good reason: washing hands helps avoid infections and is therefore the simplest and best defense strategy. Up to eighty percent of common infections are spread by hands, such as colds,...

Srey Mom’s Bachelor’s Degree

Cambodia remains affected by extreme poverty to this day, which sadly prevents thousands of young Cambodians from enrolling in higher education programs. With no social welfare or state scholarships to turn to, adolescents are typically forced to join the workforce at a young age in order to provide for themselves and their families.Srey Mom found herself in this exact situation. Despite always...

Srey Nek’s and Yean’s High School Tuition

Siblings Srey Nek and Yean live with their single mother Phors, who has worked very hard throughout the past years to provide for both of them. Recently, however, the small family has had to face a major financial crisis, when Phors found herself out of work and therefore unable to continue to pay her children’s monthly high school tuition. Thomlang – Cambodian Youth Support stepped in to...

Student Support in Phnom Penh

Since the beginning of the year, Thomlang – Cambodian Youth Support has been supporting six students in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh. Five of these students are currently enrolled in university, one is enrolled in trade school. Our monthly financial support helps these students in various ways, such as covering their rent, transportation costs, medical costs, and other daily expenses. At...

Reach’s Music Production Course

CYS stands for empowering young Cambodians in pursuing their unique dreams. As Wes Moore once said: “Potential is universal, opportunity is not“. We fully believe that our work can only have a long-lasting positive impact on Cambodia’s society if we commit to the support of each of our beneficiaries’ individual goals, as opposed to dictating certain career paths to them. Reach has always...