My Charity

Some info I prepared about the charity that you might be interested in. My role is assistant to the deputy director, co-coordinator of the language school, and English teacher.

Projects

 

The heart of the charity is education. The following projects seek to provide the progressive education and caring upbringing needed to ensure a bright future for all of Cambodia’s people.

 

1. Food for Education makes food available to poor families whose children attend school or classes.

Rural Project

 

Food for Education operates in five villages. 350 poor families are given 20kg of rice per month (as well as other ingredients such as 2 tins of sardines, 2 bottles of soya sauce and salt) in return for an agreement to send their children to school. We also operate programs for school sponsorship, medical care, health education, income generating activity and home building in these target areas.

Computer and Foreign Language Classes

 

In Siem Reap, poor children are given free classes in English and foreign languages. These skills empower disadvantaged and vulnerable people to find good work in this burgeoning tourist city. Very poor students can therefore receive an essential education without compromising their families’ food budgets.

2. The Sewing Training Centre gives young people from poor families the chance to improve their future prospects by learning sewing and other basic life/ work skills.

 

Vulnerable young people are taught sewing, English and basic life skills, to prepare them for brighter futures. Courses run for six months, with 20-25 students attending each course. Poor students’ attendance is made possible by the provision of free food and accommodation. At the end of the course, students are given sewing machines and materials, so that they can use their new skills to earn a living well into the future.

 

3. Our Junior High School project aims to meet the urgent needs of a rural community, by encouraging and improving children’s education beyond the primary level.

 

Many children drop-out of school after the primary level, so we provide lunch for all the school’s staff and students, to give them the extra motivation to attend classes within and beyond school hours. The charity also provides all the accommodation and food needs of certain students suffering the most hardship. As well as these provisions, we employ a project coordinator, an English teacher, two agricultural staff, and a security guard. The charity regularly intervenes with and advises the school so that the best possible education and environment are delivered.

 

4. PACE combats the hardship and discrimination faced by many young girls in Cambodia by giving the most disadvantaged everything they need to reach the highest standards of education.

 

PACE provides care, food, accommodation, tutoring, educational supplies, and scholarships according to the needs of each individual student. Scholarships can take students from the junior high school level right through to the end of university. This allows the young girls to look forward to a brighter, happier future in which they can support themselves, their families and their communities.

 

5. The Children’s Development Village provides basic care and education to disadvantaged rural children.

 

CDV provides forty-three of the most vulnerable children (including orphans) in a selected commune with their basic needs of housing, food, clothing, healthcare, education and a loving secure home. The care and support offered by CDV allows the children to spend half their days learning at the public school, and then to return ‘home’ for more classes at CDV itself. At CDV, children learn Khmer, English, agriculture and a blend of both traditional and modern dance and music. Children are also taught responsibility, integrity, independence and tolerance.

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Tags: Cambodia, life and hope association, volunteering