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GOAL: To provide a safe and creative place for 300+ children to attend school in the dilapidated slum areas of Phnom Penh, where thousands of children are homeless and their futures bleak.

 

CONTEXT: The Cambodia Education Project (CEP) operates Aziza and Lakeside Schools, currently serve 2 slum communities in Phnom Penh for over 200 young people.Additionally, a temporary center has been established at a relocation siteoutside of the city, and a new school has just opened (Oct. 09).

 
The schools provide classes and activities from morning until evening everyday of the week. On weekdays English and computers are taught at variouslevels to students that mostly range from 6-20 years old. Khmer (Cambodian)nationals teach all the classes, and utilize Khmer and foreign volunteers.Weekly activities include a youth group, art, movies, yoga, dance aerobics, traditional dance and soccer, as well as guest lecturers, photography, andfield trips.  All activities are open to all, have elements of fun, offerlife experience, and most events fill the schools.
 
A series of leadership classes have been taught to over 180 teenagers fromthe areas, and have been the building block for the school's LeadershipTeam; a group of committed students who volunteer and gain work experience.Health training and services are also provided free of charge to students,including testing, treatment, medicine, as well as quality dental care andtoothbrushes.  To empower youth and provide them a sustainable educationplan, the schools prepare and place students into jobs to help them stay in school, primarily as house cleaners and doing data entry.
 

TARGET GROUP: Children living in three distinct slum areas in Phnom Penh.

 
 
OUTPUTS AND SUCCESSES
 
CAMBODIA EDUCATION PROJECT DETAIL
 
A Letter by Noa Senoun, Student of Aziza School
 
 
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