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

Sreyleak is 16 years old student in 9th grade at The Tokatsu Espoir School, which is located in Ta Khong village, Trien commune, Kampong Siem district and Kampong Cham province.

Sreyleak has gotten one brother and one sister. She is first child in the family. Her father’s name is Koeurn Thuy, 48 years old farmer. Her mother’s name is Tho Yoeurn, 47 years old and she is a farmer as well.

Sreyleak said that her parents are farmers who own one hectare of farmland for sowing rice. Her rice field is difficult to get water to supply the rice so that their farmland depends upon natural raining only. According to these reasons so her parents could gather 10 sacks of rice’s production and a quantity of one sack of rice is about 75 to 80 kilogram. After gathering rice is completely finished, her father hasn’t still stayed at home but he went to work as seasonal workers in order to get 25,000 riels per day to support his family.

In her free time, she likes doing housework, doing homework and doing exercises. In the future, she wants to be a bank staff because she loves this career in order to earn more money to support her family.

Date Posted: November, 2018