Girls Be Ambitious

A program that enables girls who are unable to go to school due conditions of poverty to attend one of our rural schools and receive an education instead of having to work in the fields, do chores at home or take care of siblings.

Khan Karuna

Khan Karuna is a 10 year-old student in 4th grade at The Vasaskolan School in Angbaksey village, CheangToung commune, Tram Kak district, Takeo province.

Karuna has two siblings: a brother and a sister. She is the second child in the family. There are 8 members in her family. Her mother and father divorced when she was 9 months. She lives with her grandmother, 66 years old, and grandfather, 67 years old . Her grandparents are farmers who own 85A of land and produce 75 baskets of rice in per season. She helps her grandparents to do housework apart from schooling. She wants to be a teacher in the future.

Date Posted: February, 2016