Education provides children with hope for a future and an opportunity to escape from poverty. It also provides them with a voice in their community, the ability to make informed decisions and the chance to reach their full potential.

Many children in underprivileged communities dream of the chance to live a better life, and education is their opportunity.

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Location: Cambodia

Many of the children growing up in Stung Meanchey, a slum area in Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital city, don’t go to school. Instead, they collect scraps from the streets or rubbish dump and sell them to help support their families. Parents think education is irrelevant to slum life, and the daily fee charged by teachers is more than most families can afford. Even those children who begin school drop out quickly.

The New Hope Education Project works from within the Stung Meanchey community to improve attitudes and access to education. The project forms and trains parents’ associations to take responsibility for education.

It forms youth clubs to teach teenagers life and job skills, and supports existing children’s clubs where children learn about their rights and responsibilities.

The project also establishes non-formal classes to prepare children who have never been to school, or have dropped out, to enter the government school system. It provides stationery, uniforms, transport and school meals so children from needy families can go to school.