Education for 300 Urban Poor Children

I’m happy to see all my children go to school...

Mr. Vorn, 45, and his wife, 48, is a poor family from Prey Veng province. They settled in Prey Tea village, Phnom Penh since 2000. They have 3 children. Mr. Vorn works as a motorbike technician and his wife does not have a regular job. She, sometimes, sells vegetable in the market (the vegetable that she picked from the public areas) and other time washes clothes for their neighbors to make income. She, generally, does whatever she can do in order to make more income for her family. Their income was very little, which was not enough for their daily expense. As a result of this, they could not afford their second son and the youngest daughter to go to school. Only Sinoun, who is 14, goes to school. The second son, who is 12, spends his time not at school, while his age should be in school, but at market to help them in making income by selling the soft drink.

Sunshine Cambodia found Vorn’s family in 2014. Since then, we has worked very closely with them and their children in order to help his family. Vorn got Micro Enterprise Development training and small startup capital to extend his business. His children also got educational support from SC. When we visit his family Mr. Vorn said with smiling face, “I am so grateful to Sunshine Cambodia and her staff, Mr. Chaova and Ms Sambath, who always concern about my family and children. They gave us good ideas for our business. They care for our children studies. Now I have sufficient income and my wife also has her own business. She sells gasoline and soft drink in front of my motor repairing shop. What make me so happy is all my children can go to school. They are at school now.”

Mr. Vorn’s business is much better now. Mr. Vorn has sufficient income to support his family through his business. Moreover, all his children are able to go to school – Sinoun is grade 7, Vern is grade 1, and Srey Pov is grade 2 – which makes him and his wife have more comfort and hope. At home Mr. Vorn has tried very hard to teach his second son, Vern, who is not able to read as he used to sell soft drink and other things with him previously. Now Vern is studying at a private school in the hope that this coming year he capable to join at a state school. “I am very happy to see my second son, Vern, can go to school as other children instead of selling soft drink and other things as he did previously. Last time I worried about him because we were not able to support him for schooling, but right now he can read and write. I hope that he can join the state school very soon,” Vorn said happily. 

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