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Category: University

From High School to Law School

Julian November 19, 2023 0 Comments
Through previous blog posts, you have already grown familiar with Yean’s story. Yean grew up with his older sister Srey Nek and his single mother, who lost her job in 2021 and was therefore unable to continue to pay for her children’s high school tuition. The then 16-year-old would have had to drop out of 10th grade and take up work to support his mother. Fortunately, thanks to your...

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...

Voeng’s University Enrollment

Julian June 18, 2023 0 Comments
After graduating high school in 2019, Voeng, who is an orphan, felt the need to join the workforce right away in order to earn money and be able to provide for himself.  However, throughout the following three years, he soon realized that it was becoming increasingly challenging to find a stable job with a reliable income in Cambodia without a degree. After losing his job at a small Khmer...

Kimhouy Starts University

Julian May 28, 2023 0 Comments
Kimhouy is a recent high school graduate who grew up in rural Kampot. The 18-year-old is the first of three children. Her father is a fisher who earns about 12$-15$ a day and struggles to repay a bank loan, that he took out to afford a small house for his family of five. Kimhouy is an aspiring businesswoman, but her family lacks the financial resources to support her dreams of pursuing higher...