Community based education

Not every place in Battambang province has a school or schools specially in the remote districts in the Cambodian –Thai border and not many teachers are willing to go or stay as they are not used to its environment so they often go back to the cities.Take for example the villages and district in Sampov Loun which don’t have schools but with a lot of children having no access to education

PKO Cambodia helps children who have problem in their living condition to have access to education.
Children in Sampuv Loun District, Battambang province.

PKO is implementing a Community Based Eduation Project in two villages of Sampov Loun District, by mobilize the community to build the cottage as the temporary shool for their children.

The Community people contributed pieces of wood for the pillars and walling of the shelter and PKO provided Zinc and nails for the temporary school.

PKO recruited the community people and trained them on the pedagogy of teaching children for them to be able to provide classes following the national curriculum. Our project officers conducted the visit twice a month to give  on the job training for those community teachers.

PKO Cambodia helps children who have problem in their living condition to have access to education.
Children in Sampuv Loun District, Battambang province.

Currently this project is done in two temporary schools in two villages which cover around 250 children (from grade 1- 4). The children received school kits and school uniforms too from PKO for their study.

The villages  we are working with are located deep in the middle of the forest without accessible roads and  any infrastructures. Those group of people were former displaced Khmer Rouge families from Battambang and other provinces residing in the jungle to find land for farming as they do not have any land or houses in the city or town, something that drove them to this remote areas.

Besides giving them opportunity to avail of proper education, we also organized training sessions to the communities on water management and sanitation practices to combat malaria, typhoid and dengue fever.

Our project team conducts home visit to the home of the children in order to talk to their parents about the rights of their children, the value of education and discussing with them their daily life situation.

PKO has used PLAY as the method to develop the children. PKO lets the children enjoy and benefit from the play. Play is the important for all stages of the child development. The play is written as the article 31st of the CRC but it is forgotten and mostly unknown in Cambodia. The PLAY has been tested, used and promoted by PKO since 1997. PKO acknowledges PLAY is the best tool to improve the development of the children. Children love play the most but they are limited to access to the play.