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

Ouk Sreyneath is 10 year-old student in the 5th grade in The Kirivorn School #90, which is located in Kirivorn village, Steung Chhay commune, Kampong Sela district and Preah Sihanouk province.

Sreyneath has gotten five members in her family, such as grandma, mother, and three daughters including Sreyneath is a second daughter. Her father was died a few years ago. Generally, Sreyneath and her siblings have been living with her grandma because her mother has been working at a coffee shop in Phnom Penh. And she could get $100 per month. Her grandmother and mother do not have farmland for growing rice, so her grandmother works as a housemaid in her village when someone needs her. She gets around $2 or $3 in a day. Presently, her family’s living conditions is based on her mother and grandmother’s revenues.

Sreyneath’s future objective is that she wants to become a dentist when grows up because she wants to work in the dental clinic.

Date posted: December, 2018