As a child, Sothea dropped out of school for nearly six months, without the support of a family member to keep him in school. When he was given homework he did not have any support or advice, and he lost his motivation to go to school. Fortunately, Mr. Sarein, a primary school teacher, visited him and encouraged him to return to school.
Now Sothea looks back and uses his own experience as inspiration in his work as a literacy coach through the TRAC+ project.
Thavary is one of the literacy coaches trained through the TRAC+ project, chosen for participation because of her eagerness to help struggling students. As Thavary explains, “when I was young I didn’t have many resources. Not I want to use what I know to help students develop, and I was to see the education system improve as well.”
Hong is a peer educator trained by World Education’s AIMS project to share information about safety and migration with her peers. You can read more about her story and the AIMS project in this success story.
With a goal of reducing the vulnerability of migrant youth to trafficking, exploitation, and abuse, the Youth on the Move project has been in operation for over five years. This factsheet describes the three intervention areas of the program in detail.
This September participants in World Education’s Youth on the Move project published the first of a series of newsletters. The newsletter, written in Khmer with design and photography by youth participants, gives highlights from project workshops as well as health and safety information.
A report on a program officer’s trip to Cambodia to visit World Education’s project sites in rural schools.
Arunny is a 9th-grade student who is training to become a leader in her school and community with World Education’s Youth on the Move Program. 2015.
World Education’s IBEC Project, which concluded in 2014, was a $10 million, 5-year project funded by USAID. The project aimed to improve the quality of education in Cambodian primary and secondary schools by addressing a number of factors, from teacher training and curriculum development to water and sanitation, and to involve stakeholders at local, provincial, and national levels.
World Education has developed an innovative, holistic approach to improving early grade reading instruction in Cambodia. To read more about our work, and to see pictures from project sites, read the Learning to Read photo story.
In March 2015 the Accessing Information about Migration and Safety (AIMS) Project, implemented by World Education and funded by Dream Blue Foundation, a corporate foundation of Blue Telcom, Inc., wrapped up. Project activities included the creation of the AIMS tools, sources of information about safe migration practices for Cambodian youth accessible through a website, facebook page, or Interactive Voice Response (IVR). In-school and migrant youth received training on safe migration, as well as how to access the AIMS tools. This end-line survey report is the result of a follow-up survey with 40 of the AIMS youth participants, and includes data on the frequency of recollection of AIMS training information, as well as whether, and how, the youth were accessing the AIMS tools.