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Find out what great things the SCC team and the communities we support have accomplished in 2008-09: http://www.schools4cambodia.org/files/folders/sccnewsletters/entry319.aspx
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Read the latest news from our 2008-09 Student Sponsorship Programme here: http://www.schools4cambodia.org/files/folders/sccnewsletters/entry320.aspx
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Two recently installed signboards are attracting attention in Phoum Stung community. The signboards are part of the 2009 Phoum Stung Primary School development plan, which aims to increase the value that parents put on education. In a series of eight...
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Names of the donors who contributed funds and labour to the construction of Wat Mon Thyean's new classrooms and toilets are now prominently displayed on the front of the school building. The sign was designed by the School Support Committee to express...
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Grade 5 and 6 students at Phoum Stung Primary School have had a very special opportunity the past 6 months. Through hands-on classes taught by a community volunteer, students have learned how to plant and care for mango trees, a skill that is important...
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In 2007 alone, nearly 40,000 cases of dengue fever were reported in Cambodia, taking the lives of 407 people, many of them children. 1 Dengue fever, caused by a mosquito-transmitted virus, manifests as a sudden onset of severe headache, muscle and joint...
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In Feburary and March, SCC, in collaboration with the Siem Reap Provincial Teacher Training College (PTTC), provided training on teaching methodology and classroom management to over 40 primary school teachers. In late May and early June, teachers at...
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Since Feburary 2009, the School Support Committee at Phoum Stung Primary School and SCC have been working with Our Books, a non-profit dedicated to the development of comic art in Cambodia, to design a series of images that promote the value of education...
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On Thursday, 28 May, 70 community members gathered in the new Wat Mon Thyean classrooms for the second of two meetings organized by the School Support Committee to improve school-community communication and to promote the value of education. Followed...
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In the final phase of SCC's School Adoption Programme, teacher sponsorship was phased out in February 2009 and replaced by SCC's Primary School Development Programme (PSDP). This is a more sustainable approach to improving access to and quality...
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Community volunteers are now well on their way to becoming mentors for SCC's sponsored students! The three eager volunteers -- Pon Poon, Saleoun, and Sinkosal -- all gathered Wednesday, April 1, for a morning training session at the Son Thai Village...
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Students were not in class March 9, 2009 in observance of International Women's Day; however, that did not stop over 40 teachers sitting in local classrooms to participate in the final day of SCC-supported teacher training. The last training sessions...
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SCC's Programme Officer, Thida, has been working tirelessly to select a great bunch of volunteer mentors for 21 Dom Dek Secondary School students supported under our Student Sponsorship Programme. This week the final selections were made and we now...
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Cambodia 's classrooms are generally under-resourced. Cabinets or shelves -- if they exist -- are empty, walls are bare, and in most cases there are insufficient textbooks to accommodate all students. In a Valuing Teachers survey conducted by Voluntary...
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During the last weeks of February, Wat Mon Thyean Primary School students were seen hauling bamboo shoots to school, just after the roosters started their morning crowing. The bamboo is the community's contribution to the construction of a fence that...
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