by Kate Allen | Mar 30, 2022 | Covid19 Strategy, Get Real, Mentorship, Scholarships, Schools
We all know what a disastrous effect Covid had globally – in terms of public health, but on so many other areas of life too. In Cambodia, devastation rampaged across the economy, education system, and the population’s psychological well-being. Now, we certainly...
by Kate Allen | Feb 10, 2022 | Covid19 Strategy, Featured, Headline, News from the Field, Schools
Well, it was a risk. But we knew that going in. Persuading a whole cohort of 6th graders across our most remote primary schools to repeat the year – even though they had already been ‘passed’ into middle school – was always going to be a tall order. As...
by Kate Allen | Feb 8, 2022 | Covid19 Strategy, Featured, Headline, Scholarships
Since 2016, we have been awarding Grade 12 scholarships to the top tier of high school students who show the most potential as university candidates. Gaining access to university is near impossible for the vast majority of rural students, and we support those who can...
by Kate Allen | Dec 29, 2021 | Covid19 Strategy, Featured, Get Real, Headline, News from the Field, Schools
Last week, our rural primary students at Romchek, Koh Ker, and Prey Kuol took our Grade 6 exam, which we organized to give them the chance to truly assess their readiness and capability to pass through to secondary school. You may remember that all Grade 6-ers at...
by Kate Allen | Dec 7, 2021 | Covid19 Strategy, Featured, Headline, Schools, Teachers
Imagine you are a 5th grader in a remote village just mastering the incredibly complicated Khmer alphabet. Now imagine something called a ‘pandemic’ happens – what even is THAT?! – and your school closes. You must stay at home and virtually miss two full school years,...
by Kate Allen | Nov 4, 2021 | Covid19 Strategy, Featured, Food & Wellness, Headline, News from the Field
While many countries spent 2020 in and out of lockdowns and are now broadly free of restrictions, Cambodia’s COVID journey has been almost the polar opposite. For much of last year, we still had freedom of movement, affording a degree of normalcy to daily life and...
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