By Meg Davies | Senior Development Officer
After a year and a half of empty classrooms and silent hallways, ISF is thrilled to share that in early November we welcomed our students back on to campus. Students like Monika*, who couldn’t wait to get back to school.
Since Monika started with ISF’s Catch-Up Programme in 2019, she’s made a number of new friends and blossomed under the guidance of her teachers. While she studies with us, she also has access to healthcare, sport. and nutritional support to break down barriers to education. This includes two meals each school day which are Monika’s favourite!
During school closures, Monika missed coming to campus and found learning at home away from her classmates difficult. However, with help from our teachers and social workers, she continued to study hard so she could catch up on the education she had missed out on as her family couldn't afford to send her to school.
ISF believes education is the foundation for a better and brighter future. Our innovative Education Programme works to catch students like Monika up to the correct grade for their age so they can integrate into the state school system. Learning two grades of the Khmer curriculum in one, students also receive English and IT lessons, tablet -based learning, sports, and soft-skill development activities.
With the new academic year fast approaching, we have been working hard to enroll new students to join Monika and 130 students like her who are already benefiting from this holistic support through our Catch-Up Programme. With the uncertainty that the pandemic brought, this was not something we were able to offer in 2021 and the ISF team are eager and excited to welcome new students.
Can you help us support more students like Monika?
At a time where schools in Cambodia have finally been able to reopen, ISF is facing a significant funding gap which is threatening the education of our vulnerable students.
ISF’s First Day at School Campaign aims to raise enough funds for 50 out-of-school children to join our Catch-Up Programme. These children will likely have never been to school before or were forced to drop out due to extreme poverty. Can you support ISF once again and help us achieve our goal?
You can donate here to keep classroom doors open for vulnerable children in Phnom Penh!
Thank you so much again for everything you have already done for ISF and helping to create pathways out of poverty for our students and their families. We simply couldn’t do it without you.
The ISF Team
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*Name changed to protect the child’s privacy.
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