Cambodian School Project

We invite you to join us! Our goal in the Cambodian School Project is to prepare poor children in rural Cambodia for survival in Cambodia’s rapidly changing economic landscape. Rural families live as they have for hundreds of years, growing rice and vegetables on small plots of land. Children inherit land to farm just as their parents did. In such day-to-day subsistence farming, literacy is not important and school attendance gives way to farm chores. Now that Cambodia is modernizing, much of this farmland has been sold to speculators. With improved infant health care, families are larger. There will not be enough land for these rural children to live as their parents do. They are at high risk for a lifetime of poverty.

To help these children, we focus on literacy and education. We have built four elementary schools in rural villages and have adopted two others. In 2011, partnering with the JHP Skola grouup in the Czech Republic, we built a trade school for graduates not going to high school. We support the 1,500 elementary students in our schools with books, school supplies and clothing. We are teaching English in addition to the traditional curriculum to help them find work after graduating. In 2009, we had the first graduates from our school at Pouem Steung. Over 95% of our first graders completed elementary classes in that village. Over the years, we put in a well the whole village uses. With volunteer labor, we put a bridge over the river (Poum Steung means River Village). We taught and now employ six of the poorest young women in the village to sew the 1,500 school uniforms that we give to students each year. We also planted trees, improved the school grounds and added organic gardens. These graduates can read, write, do arithmetic and have some basic English. They are ready for high school but continue to need support to continue school. In 2010 we began to give bicycles to the poorest graduates who live farthest away so they can make the long commute to high school. In 2011, partnering with the JHP group in the Czech Republic, we built a trade school for those who do not want to continue to high school. Here we will teach English and have courses in computer use, sewing and tailoring and eventually cooking and vehicle repair. Good students who graduate will be granted micro loans to help them set up small businesses in their villages. We invite you to join us in helping these children. We make every donation count by being a 100% charity - every dollar contributed goes to the schools in Cambodia (board members pay fund raising and travel expenses). We think we provide one of the best values available for those who give to charity. We are a registered 501 (c) 3 non-profit charitable corporation, so gifts to us qualify for tax deductions under current law. In addition to passing on all contributions, we are careful about how our money is spent. We have trusted confederates in Cambodia and on our board. This insures honesty and fairness in the way our funding is used there. We work with principals, teachers, mayors, school administrators and parents to set mutually agreeable and accountable goals. We invite you to come and visit our to see our schools for yourself. We are quite close to Siem Reap, near the famed Angkor Wat temples. This large city has excellent tourist facilities and the temples are magnificent sights. We can provide visitors with translation and transportation to our schools. We invite you to visit. We invite you to join us in giving these bright and energetic children opportunity and hope.

We invite you to join us!

Our goal in the Cambodian School Project is to prepare poor children in rural Cambodia for survival in Cambodia’s rapidly changing economic landscape. Rural families live as they have for hundreds of years, growing rice and vegetables on small plots of land. Children inherit land to farm just as their parents did. In such day-to-day subsistence farming, literacy is not important and school attendance gives way to farm chores. Now that Cambodia is modernizing, much of this farmland has been sold to speculators. With improved infant health care, families are larger. There will not be enough land for these rural children to live as their parents do. They are at high risk for a lifetime of poverty.

To help these children, we focus on literacy and education. We have built four elementary schools in rural villages and have adopted two others. In 2011, partnering with the JHP Skola grouup in the Czech Republic, we built a trade school for graduates not going to high school. We support the 1,500 elementary students in our schools with books, school supplies and clothing. We are teaching English in addition to the traditional curriculum to help them find work after graduating.

In 2009, we had the first graduates from our school at Pouem Steung. Over 95% of our first graders completed elementary classes in that village. Over the years, we put in a well the whole village uses. With volunteer labor, we put a bridge over the river (Poum Steung means River Village). We taught and now employ six of the poorest young women in the village to sew the 1,500 school uniforms that we give to students each year. We also planted trees, improved the school grounds and added organic gardens.

These graduates can read, write, do arithmetic and have some basic English. They are ready for high school but continue to need support to continue school. In 2010 we began to give bicycles to the poorest graduates who live farthest away so they can make the long commute to high school. In 2011, partnering with the JHP group in the Czech Republic, we built a trade school for those who do not want to continue to high school. Here we will teach English and have courses in computer use, sewing and tailoring and eventually cooking and vehicle repair. Good students who graduate will be granted micro loans to help them set up small businesses in their villages.

We invite you to join us in helping these children. We make every donation count by being a 100% charity - every dollar contributed goes to the schools in Cambodia (board members pay fund raising and travel expenses). We think we provide one of the best values available for those who give to charity. We are a registered 501 (c) 3 non-profit charitable corporation, so gifts to us qualify for tax deductions under current law.

In addition to passing on all contributions, we are careful about how our money is spent. We have trusted confederates in Cambodia and on our board. This insures honesty and fairness in the way our funding is used there. We work with principals, teachers, mayors, school administrators and parents to set mutually agreeable and accountable goals.

We invite you to come and visit our to see our schools for yourself. We are quite close to Siem Reap, near the famed Angkor Wat temples. This large city has excellent tourist facilities and the temples are magnificent sights. We can provide visitors with translation and transportation to our schools. We invite you to visit. We invite you to join us in giving these bright and energetic children opportunity and hope.

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