by Kate Allen | Mar 11, 2022 | Featured, Headline, Schools, Technology, Workshops
If you follow our social media, you’ll have seen teasers of an exciting new project that we can finally now reveal. Drum roll for … the Ponheary Ly Foundation Urban Learning Center! For the past few months, we have been quietly toiling away to get Fort PLF (as it’s...
by Kate Allen | Feb 22, 2022 | Featured, Headline, News from the Field, opening days, Schools, Staff, Supplies & Uniforms
In January we celebrated a full return to school after nearly two years of Covid closures. Our Dream Team rolled out their Opening Day roadshow, prepping and opening all our locations for enrolment, and welcoming students and staff back into classrooms that have been...
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...
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