Each spring, as a reward for their hard work, we fund a trip for teachers and their families. They choose the destination for their travels. These trips help promote a spirit of collaboration and camaraderie.

Over the last 13 years, we've been one of the top village schools in the country, based on the recent 9th grade national exam results..

Thanks to your donations for university scholarships, thirteen of our alumni boarding at Leadership Academy in Phnom Penh will soon be attending some of the best universities in the nation. Seven will be entering as freshmen and six will return as sophomores.

Our school has maintained over five months of full in-person covid-free classes. We supplied masks and hand-sanitizer when in-person classes resumed last September 15th.

Our gardener retired teacher Koh Ji has taught students how their families can diversify from single crop dependency on rice by having them raise many vegetables and fruits in our organic demonstration garden.

Check out the new crops planted in our organic demonstration garden!

Holly Case, a dear friend and parent volunteer on our 2018 volunteer trip, told us about Xilinx’s charitable grant program. We wrote two grants and Xilinx awarded us $15,000 and, just recently, $20,000!

Thanks to Xilinx’s generosity, we are funding university scholarships for 12 of our alumni boarding at Leadership Academy in Phnom Penh.

“Our project was helping children learn English and develop skills they could use later in life. We chose this because learning English is so important for children in low-income areas, or who attend English-speaking schools. Khmer is the national language of Cambodia, but college classes are taught in English. Education is something we are passionate about. Giving girls the same chances to learn as boys is extremely important.”

Our thanks to all who contributed to Giving Tuesday! Your gift will help fund the creation of a localized version of the Leadership Academy to provide college prep level education to 30 village high school students.

Ok, so, days after our annual gala major fundraiser (stay tuned--another news post below), our Polish pastor, Fr. Tad Terembula, asked us to deliver the homily for "Mission Sunday" on October 24. He wanted us to simply tell how working for over a decade with Cambodian village children and their families had affected us. We were truly honored and humbled.

We were awarded a State Department grant to manage an after-school two-year English Intensive program for 30 high school students.

We held a combination virtual/live fundraiser this year in October 2021, given the uncertainty surrounding the pandemic. thanks to so many of you, we raised over $18,000 initially…and, thanks to your continuing support, our fundraising has grown to over $20,000!

Thanks to February 2018 volunteer and great friend Holly Case, we were alerted to an opportunity to apply for a grant with Xilinx. While working at Xilinx, Holly found out about their commitment to help non-profits in their missions around the world. She sent us the info on how to apply and, thanks to Xilinx’s generosity, we were awarded a grant for $15,000 to fund university scholarships for eight young women alumni from our school who have received scholarships to further their education since they were forced to drop out of 7th grade because of their families’ poverty.