Access to education & sport changed Puna's life 19-year old Puna grew up in extreme poverty where there was constant livelihood and food insecurity at home which meant that she missed out on an education and a childhood for the first ten years of her life. Today, she has overcome the odds ...
ISF’s Employment Support opens doors for Bunthai and Pong Kun Bunthai and Lun Pong are two young men that demonstrate what a difference an education can make - even a short education. Both Bunthai and Pong joined ISF as Catch-up Education students catching up on missed education and later integrated into state ...
Yoam’s Story: Illiteracy is like a life sentence 44-year old mother-of-two Ken Yoam is one of ISF’s community library users and a recent beneficiary of our Adult Literacy Course. Yoam moved from the countryside to Cambodia’s capital city Phnom Penh 22 years ago to work as a garment factory worker. Life for ...
Advancing women's economic empowerment in Cambodia In Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh, 25% of the population live under the poverty line of $1.90 per day. Of the city's urban, poor inhabitants, 50% live on less than $1 a day. A lack of education and access to resources means many are trapped in a cycle ...
Education and football give Be the tools to build a better life Sixteen-year-old Be, an only child living in a poor urban community of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, joined ISF’s Education Programme in 2011. From the onset, Be was interested in playing football but knew that girls from her background typically don’t play ...
Football for social good: coach training Locations: Phnom Penh (March 18 - 22, 2019) Prey Veng Province (April 1 – 5, 2019) Last month, we launched a pilot outreach project to empower coaches in rural areas to provide access to sport and learning to socially disadvantaged children in Cambodia. Coaches in three ...
2018 has been a successful and exciting year for all of us at ISF, in Cambodia. We’ve received international recognition in the form of awards and shortlists for our Football Programme and we’ve welcomed 80 new students into our Catch-up Education Programme as well as seen many students graduate and progress to state school and ...
AIA-ISF Youth League 2018/2019: Cambodia’s Largest Community Football Programme Continues to Promote a Healthier Future Cambodia’s largest community football programme launched its 6-month youth league for a new season today at the ISF Sports Ground in Preah Theat Village, Phnom Penh. The AIA-ISF Youth league is a joint effort between local charity Indochina Starfish Foundation ...
The power of sport to push for progress in alignment the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was explicitly acknowledged through a General Assembly resolution, adopted at UN Headquarters on Monday, 3 December 2018. The resolution recognises the use of sport as a vehicle to create change and “foster sustainable development…and respect and facilitate social inclusion, conflict ...
Pun Vuthy is 16 years old and currently supported by ISF to attend state school. Growing up in Takeo Province in southwest Cambodia, Vuthy didn’t have much of an opportunity to go to school as both his parents were ill and the responsibility to put food on the table fell to him and his seven ...
18-year-old Thavy*, a beneficiary of ISF's Education Programme, used to live in Takeo Province in southwest Cambodia with her family. Despite attending school there for six years, she could not read or write well growing up. At 13 years old, she moved to Phnom Penh with her sister and discovered ISF. She restarted from grade ...
Sinat, pictured above is currently enrolled in a sewing class, as part of ISF's community development project. Sinat is 36 years old and married with three children. She moved from Prey Veng Province to live in Phnon Penh in 2006. Her husband works repairing bikes in a local shop and Sinat is a housewife. Unfortunately, ...
