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.

To Be Selected

Thonghaiy Thavry, 15 years old, she is in grade 9 at Pluk Secondary School, Pluk Commune, Sesan District, Stung Treng province.

Thavry is the sixth child in the family with the other eight siblings. She is a father left orphan and her mother’s name Khun Som, she is famer. They have their own farmland about one hectare in where they can produce rice 3,060 kg during a year to support the family. Besides working for their rice field, her mother has to find other labor work out of the village for 6 – 8 weeks and earn about $350 per year. Moreover, the rest of the times, they are growing vegetable to sell or exchange for daily food. Not even all income are enough to support the family and the study of her children. She admired to the donor for supporting her daughter to continue to study; even the help cannot change their living but at least can help them reduce the payment of each month.

She wants to be a police to help protect her family and villager. She promised to come school and study hard.

Date posted: March, 2018