Panha is on the Road to Success There are countless reasons why we’re incredibly proud of Panha. This recent state school graduate started with ISF at grade 5 and we've had the pleasure of watching him flourish. Through hard work and dedication, this ambitious youth rose to the top of an English ...
Veasna is the first in her family to use a computer When 11-year-old Veasna joined ISF’s Catch-Up Education Programme two years ago it was the first time she had the opportunity to go to school. Originally from Svay Rieng Province, a southeastern province bordering Vietnam, Veasna lives with her parents and five ...
When Ava* joined ISF Cambodia last year at the age of 11 years old she was underweight and her general health and well-being was unstable. Because of illness, she missed classes regularly. Concerned about her health and wellbeing, one ISF’s nurses identified undernutrition as the cause of her poor health and gave her vitamin pills ...
Sokha* used to study in grade 2 at state school, but she had to drop out because her parents couldn't afford to send her anymore. Shes come from Prey Veng Province but my family (her parents and two siblings) moved to live in Phnom Penh in 2012. Her father is a fisherman and mother is a ...
Leaphea* is nine years old and currently in our Catch-up Education Programme. Her hometown is in Svay Rieng Province but her parents and her six siblings relocated to Phnom Penh in 2012. Her father is a construction worker and her mother is a housewife. Her older sisters and brothers work as scavengers (scavenging for plastic ...
In August 2017, ISF student Bunleng passed his grade 12 exams and completed his Cambodian high school education. Coming from a country where one in three children don’t complete primary education and from one of Phnom Penh’s most disadvantaged slum communities, university was never considered an option for Bunleung. However, his hard ...
When ISF made a video about its Education Programme in 2015, one of the catch-up students we spoke to was Bunleng. In the interview, he said he wanted to be a businessman. Two years later, he is one of our first three Grade 12 students - all pictured below - to finish high school. He ...
Most children who join ISF have never been to school before or have had to drop out to help support their families. When they come to ISF, they are behind compared to their peers. ISF enrolls them in the Catch-up Programme, enabling them to study two grades in one year and 'catch up' to the ...
