Location: Cambodia
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Skill Advancement with Learners in Cambodia
Improving School Enrollment Rates Cambodia’s rural and low-income youth have low school enrollment rates, posing difficulties in integrating into the labor market due to limited education and training. Aside from poverty, remoteness, and limited access to technical resources and infrastructure, there are limited solutions to address the problem, resulting in an inability to equip students…
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STEAM Education in Cambodia with the CCF
Finding Community at a Former Garbage Dump For Sokry, a Cambodian teenager living in extreme poverty, college felt unimaginable. Just getting through the day was challenging enough. Sokry’s community outside Phnom Penh survived by scavenging at a garbage dump, collecting scraps to earn around $1 a day. The Steung Meanchey garbage dump in Phnom Penh is…
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Supporting Technology Skills in Cambodia with PEPY
Bridging a Technology Gap for Cambodian Students Rural Cambodian youth have few income opportunities outside of construction, agriculture, or migrating to Thailand. As a result, education is undervalued and drop out rates are high, causing the cycle of poverty to repeat. The impact of Covid-19, however, only worsened the situation with many Cambodian youth losing…
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Virtual Mentorship for the Cambodian Children’s Fund with Adobe
Cambodian Children’s Fund Supports Children and Families Since 2004, the Cambodian Children’s Fund (CCF) serves children and their families in extreme poverty who survive by scavenging at the (now closed) Steung Meanchey garbage dump. CCF provides holistic support for over 2,000 children and their families through education, healthcare, and vocational training. During the pandemic, Team4Tech…
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Providing Pathways to Break the Poverty Cycle in Cambodia with PEPY Empowering Youth
In the rural and remote communities of Cambodia, young people and their families do not see many opportunities for themselves outside of construction, agriculture, or migrating to Thailand to create income. As a result, education is not valued and drop out rates are high, causing the cycle of poverty to repeat. In the wake of…
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Transforming the Lives of Impoverished Communities with the Cambodian Children’s Fund
The people of Cambodia battle intense poverty, homelessness, malnutrition, and lack of basic healthcare. 20% of Cambodian citizens live below the poverty line, with much of the rest of the population hovering just above. Millions still struggle with limited access to various necessities, including education. In the Steung Meanchey garbage dump in Phnom Penh, children…
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Impact Highlights from Team4Tech’s CARE Cambodia 2018/19 Projects
Cambodia’s ethnic minority population has historically been marginalized from accessing services including health and education. There are 24 minority ethnicities, the majority of which live in the north-east of Cambodia. To serve the ethnic minority youth in the rural province of Ratanak Kiri, CARE Cambodia launched the Know & Grow initiative. Since 2015, CARE Cambodia’s…
