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Mobile Libraries Help Rural Students Read

PHNOM PENH – Access to books can be complicated in rural areas, causing potential limitations to children’s imagination and abilities to read in their adult life. But the pupils of the Khum Koh Chivaing Primary School, who struggle to put…

Bolstering Cambodia’s Oyster Farming Sector

KAMPOT PROVINCE – The first young female oyster researcher in Cambodia hopes to introduce oyster farming techniques in coastal communities to transform traditional oyster catching that is risky for livelihoods to a safer method of earning income by selling natural…

Disabled Women Attend Business Planning Workshops

Aide et Action, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) is conducting a series of practical training workshops for disabled women in Kampot province to help them start small businesses from their homes. Titled “Coastal Incubator Programme for Women Entrepreneurs with Disabilities’’, the…

French NGO Offers $2M in Educational Aid for Kids

The French NGO Action Education (AEA), and its partners, announced the distribution of 150,000 exercise books, 12,000 school uniforms, 6,000 backpacks, and 5,000 bicycles to disadvantaged primary schoolchildren across Cambodia. “These materials are funded by the Education A Child [EAC]…

NGO Helping Keep 23,000 Kids in Schools

In 2022, the Cambodian Consortium for Out of School Children (CCOSC) supported more than 23,000 out-of-school children nationwide, while also training more than 3,000 teachers. The project received financial support from the Educate A Child (EAC) of the Education Above…

NGO Offers Boats to Ferry Poor Children to Schools

A non-governmental organisation (NGO) has come forward to donate boats that will make commuting easier for students of three provinces living in floating houses in Tonle Sap Lake. The provinces – Battambang, Siem Reap, and Banteay Meanchey- each will receive…