PLF GRADUATES
HALL OF FAME!
THAKYUTH – Electrical Engineering
As we grow our university scholarship program for those students with academic promise, we are also making more awards each year for vocational training placements – recognizing that some students, like young people everywhere, are better served by programs with more immediate access to jobs. Thakyuth is our first student to graduate from the relatively new National Polytechnic Institute of Angkor in Siem Reap, having taken a 2-year degree in Electrical Engineering:
After graduating I moved to Phnom Penh because there are more big companies there, and also I wanted to get new life experiences. Now I am using my electrical training in my job at Phnom Penh airport where I maintain the ventilation systems.
Taking my vocational training at NPIA definitely led to better job opportunities that wouldn’t otherwise have been available. Now my current salary is enough to both support myself, and send a significant amount back home to my mother. And there is also the opportunity to grow my job and improve my salary in the future.
If I hadn’t had this training, I would still be doing small jobs and it would be hard to support myself because that isn’t stable or regular work. It’s really important to study a skill, for which there is a need in the community.
𝘽𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙡𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙢𝙮𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙜𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙢𝙚 𝙖 𝙢𝙪𝙘𝙝 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙤𝙮𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩.”
There are many more students just like Thakyuth, with great potential for higher education, but lacking the financial ability to get there.
Donating to our scholarship fund ensures they can access college, and go on to employment opportunities that change the trajectory of not only their lives, but their families’ and communities’ too.
Make their dreams come true – and contribute to a brighter and more equitable Cambodia!