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Back-to-School Drive Begins in Siem Reap

A campaign to encourage out-of-school students to return to the classroom has been launched in Siem Reap province, as part of an initiative by Kampuchea Action to Promote Education (KAPE). The campaign was rolled out at Muk Pen Primary School…

$8.4m Project Pumped into Coastal Communities

A project aims to elevate the livelihoods of 184,550 fishing families and 1,000 students living in coastal provinces. A new project is being implemented to improve the socio-economic development of coastal communities in Cambodia. The project called the Consortium for…

EU Funds Empower Fishing Communities

Action Education (formerly Aide et Action), a French organisation, is leading project CO-SAVED, which aims to aid nearly 400,000 citizens within fishing communities who are adapting to climate change. Supported by a €4 million EU fund, the project targets economic…

Ornamental Plant Project to Boost Local Economy

Action Education (AE), a Geneva-based international NGO formerly known as Aide et Action, has launched a project to help generate new income for local communities with ornamental plants. According to a recent study, Cambodia spends no less than $50 million…

Teaching project building capacity

Over the past six months, the Consortium of Out-of-School Children (CCOOSC) project has provided capacity development to over 6,000 teachers and other educational professionals to help children learn better. Aide et Action, a French non-profit which worked with education partners…

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…