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Category: Education

Srey May’s & Chovey’s Graduation

Julian October 29, 2023 0 Comments
Earlier this year, the University of Management and Economics in Sihanoukville held a big graduation ceremony to reward graduates from the past two years with their official degrees. This included two of our students, Chovey and Srey May, who completed Bachelor’s programs in Accounting and Management respectively. Throughout the years, we were able to use your donations to cover both girls’...

Phanit’s Bachelor’s Degree

Julian September 24, 2023 0 Comments
We are all aware that education is key to success. However, this key doesn’t come for free. In a developing country like Cambodia, hundreds of thousands of ambitious adolescents are unable to enroll in university, because they can’t afford tuition fees. This forces them to stay in the poverty cycle, being only able to work for low-income jobs for the rest of their lives, and struggling to get...

Preparing Kompheak for High School

Julian September 17, 2023 0 Comments
Kompheak is a 13-year-old boy who currently attends 9th grade in Secondary School. He currently lives on his own, since his mother had to move to Phnom Penh to work at a plastic factory after his father’s passing. She earns 150$ a month, which is insufficient to properly provide for herself and her son. Furthermore, she struggles with health issues and is therefore barely able to make ends...

Guaranteeing Mobility

Julian September 03, 2023 0 Comments
In a country like Cambodia, which lacks a public transportation system, it is crucial to own a moto to navigate around. Whether you have to drive to school, university, an internship, work, or run daily errands like going to the market to grab some groceries or to a pharmacy to buy medicine, it is almost impossible to get around without a motorcycle. Owning a moto, however, comes with running...

10 Years Later: Puy Returns to School!

Julian August 20, 2023 0 Comments
Many adolescents in Cambodia do not have the privilege of being able to attend school through graduation. Especially when growing up in rural Cambodia, they often feel pressure to not pursue higher education but rather join the workforce to follow a culture that they are taught by the older Cambodian generation: to prioritize work over education in order to afford necessities like food, water,...