by Kate Allen | Feb 10, 2022 | 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 | Dec 29, 2021 | 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 | 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 Lori Carlson | Oct 29, 2021 | Enrichment Programs, Featured, Headline, Mentorship, Scholarships, Schools, University
Every year, PLF awards upwards of 25 full University Scholarships to deserving students coming up through our various projects. The impact of students having missed school for most of the last 18 months is tremendous and has put plenty of wrenches in the...
by Christin Spoolstra | Aug 21, 2021 | Featured, Headline, News from the Field, Schools, Staff, Workshops
Most small NGOs try to hide the reality that we’re all learning to fly while midair. Our Get Real series shows that we won’t ever hide those bumps and bruises. Most NGOs, like PLF, are understaffed and overworked with to-do lists that seem only ever to grow and all...
by Lori Carlson | Aug 2, 2021 | Featured, Headline, News from the Field, Schools
How deep into the bush can we go? That’s what’s always on our minds. The number of children who reside in the deep jungle without services of any sort is absolutely staggering. PLF has been working in southern Preah Vihear Province since 2007, when we opened Koh Ker...
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