Lakana*, is 12 year-old and she is the third daughter living in a Khmer farmer family. Thanks to a scholarship provided by CARE she is now studying in Grade 8 at a lower secondary school in Mondul Kiri province. Her school is in a remote area, which is about 1.5  km fr...

Sun Chan Se, 30, is a Cambodian factory worker. She moved from a remote area to work in Kampong Chhnang town. Now she lives in a small rented room. She is happy about her job and decided to participate in CARE’s project that is currently being implemented in the

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Healthy Women, Healthy Workplace is 17-month project funded by GSK and implemented by CARE International in Cambodia to strengthen the capacity of frontline health providers, factory training teams and infirmary staff to independently provide high quality and relevant...

Doeun is a Grade 3 MLE student at Seung PS in Ratanak Kiri. Highly spirited and independent, her teacher thinks she is a natural leader. She has aspirations to become a teacher or a doctor and her parents encourage her to study. She loves to draw and enjoys learning bo...

CARE International in Cambodia has been working with garment factory managers to ensure female workers feel safe from sexual harassment. Through the STOP project, they support workplaces develop positive policies and increase women’s confidence to stand up to sexual ha...

CARE’s Education for Ethnic Minorities program began in 2002 and has recently been handed over to the Cambodian government. The project has given Indigenous children

the opportunity to learn in their mother tongue, with gradual introduction of the national language, Kh...

Nary is a very shy Grade 3 MLE student at Seung Primary School in Ratanak Kiri. She likes learning both Khmer and Tampuen and knows both languages will be valuable to her when she is an adult. In fact she would like to be a translator – in English – when she grows up.

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Pheat is a Multi Lingual Education teacher at Vong Vai Primary School in Ratanak Kiri. She is a former student of the same project, and was only able to receive an education herself as a child thanks to CARE’s interventions.

Pheat’s story in her own words:

I have an olde...

“Our sexual harassment committee regularly provide worker training on sexual harassment. Our workers trust them well. Before they thought that behaviour is okay, but now our workers understand what sexual harassment policy is better”, said Kanith, a Compliance Supervis...

Teacher Bao is a former MLE student himself and now teaches MLE to Grade 3s at Seung Primary School. He is extremely grateful for the education he received as a child, saying that knowing both languages has helped him make relationships with people from outside his com...