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Profile: Tchey School Teachers Seek Further Education |
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“I hope someday one [of my students] will become very successful and remember me who is the one who helped them to learn,” says teacher Morn Simoun from Tchey School. Simoun is just one of four English teachers at  | | Tchey School's teachers seek University education to improve their teaching |
Tchey who are seeking their Pedegogy or University education to become better teachers, but can’t afford the costs of higher education The PLF is hoping to fund these teachers' higher education as an investment in giving the students at Tchey school a better education. “I like to teach because I like the students to get the knowledge, so they can know about the way to live in society and develop Cambodia. Then they could, instead of me, help the other children who will come after them. Anyway, I want them to become good people in the future,” says Rithy Thoueng who teaches the third grade, including English, as well as computer class. He dreams of returning to school to help himself become a better teacher, and maybe get a better teaching job to better support his family. |
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PLF Helps 12th Grade Girls Prepare for Graduation |
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Just a ten-minute bike ride from PLF Offices is a dormitory called Bamboo Shoots, that houses twenty young women struggling on their own to complete 12th grade. These girls have come to Siem Reap from rural villages to attend high school and complete their education. Following the departure of the NGO that set up their housing and previously supported them, PLF has stepped in to help these girls finish the school year.
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Secondary Students Broaden their English Education at Knar Primary School |
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The PLF sponsors English classes for primary school students at Tchey and Knar Primary Schools in between morning and afternoon sessions. Within the past year, the PLF has expanded their classes to include a night class at Knar Primary School for secondary school students, as well as other young adults from the community who want to improve their English. Volunteers make the one hour journey each way to teach from 5:30-7:30 every night. |
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CNN Visits the Ponheary Ly Foundation for Filming of CNN Heroes By Sotheara Ly June 6-7 2010
Sotheara "Srei" Ly, sister of PLF founder Ponheary Ly, serves as the foundation's new camerawoman and reporter. She speaks fluent English, despite having never been taught in a classroom and being deaf since the age of 14. After Ponheary was named a CNN Hero, Srei and the rest of the Ly family joined the crew from CNN Hereos on a trek to Boeng Mealea Temple and Koh Ker village, an impoverished, rural village situated in an active minefield, whose school the PLF is helping to support. This is her first story.
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This story is posted by Dorothy Griffith from Canada, who together with her husband Gordon Fraser, came to Tchey School to teach sewing and build some desks, respectively. This is Dorothy's account of her time with the students in her Sewing Class. “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand”
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